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The tensions between the values of Hubble constant obtained from the early and the late Universe data pose a significant challenge to modern cosmology. Possible modifications of the flat homogeneous isotropic cosmological {\Lambda}CDM model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 S. L. Parnovsky

We provide an end-to-end exploration of a distinct modified gravitational theory in Jordan-Brans-Dicke (JBD) gravity, from an analytical and numerical description of the background expansion and linear perturbations, to the nonlinear regime…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Shahab Joudaki , Pedro G. Ferreira , Nelson A. Lima , Hans A. Winther

We present a unified Bayesian assessment of model comparison and data-set consistency for LCDM (cold dark matter plus a cosmological constant) and minimal extensions (neutrino mass, spatial curvature, constant or evolving dark energy) using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Lukas Tobias Hergt , Sophie Henrot-Versillé , Matthieu Tristram , Douglas Scott

In this work we focus on a novel completion of the well-known Brans-Dicke theory that introduces an interaction between the dark energy and dark matter sectors, known as complete Brans-Dicke (CBD) theory. We obtain viable cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-10 Georgios Kofinas , Nelson A. Lima

Dark matter (DM) as a pressureless perfect fluid provides a good fit of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model to the astrophysical and cosmological data. In this paper, we investigate two extended properties of DM: a possible time dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-31 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes , Santosh Kumar Yadav

We combine new Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data from Planck with Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data to constrain the Brans-Dicke (BD) theory, in which the gravitational constant $G$ evolves with time. Observations of type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-19 Ji-Xia Li , Feng-Quan Wu , Yi-Chao Li , Yan Gong , Xue-Lei Chen

The $\Lambda$ cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model provides a good description of a wide range of astrophysical and cosmological observations. However, severe challenges to the phenomenological $\Lambda$CDM model have emerged…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 X. D. Jia , J. P. Hu , D. H. Gao , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

The $\Lambda$CDM model provides a good fit to a large span of cosmological data but harbors areas of phenomenology. With the improvement of the number and the accuracy of observations, discrepancies among key cosmological parameters of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Luca Visinelli , Weiqiang Yang , Alessandro Melchiorri , David F. Mota , Adam G. Riess , Joseph Silk

Recent measurements of the parameters of the Concordance Cosmology Model ($\Lambda$CDM) done in the low-redshift Universe with Supernovae Ia/Cepheids, and in the distant Universe done with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) imply different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 B. Czerny , M. L. Martínez-Aldama , G. Wojtkowska , M. Zajaček , P. Marziani , D. Dultzin , M. H. Naddaf , S. Panda , R. Prince , R. Przyluski , M. Ralowski , M. Śniegowska

In this paper, spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi type-I cosmological models of Brans-Dicke theory of gravitation are investigated. The model represents accelerating universe at present and is considered to be dominated by dark…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Umesh Kumar Sharma , Gopi Kant Goswami , Anirudh Pradhan

We use all available baryon acoustic oscillation distance measurements and Hubble parameter data to constrain the cosmological constant $\Lambda$, dynamical dark energy, and spatial curvature in simple cosmological models. We find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Joseph Ryan , Sanket Doshi , Bharat Ratra

The cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and cold dark matter (CDM) model ($\Lambda\text{CDM}$) is one of the pillars of modern cosmology and is widely used as the de facto theoretical model by current and forthcoming surveys. As the nature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Rubén Arjona , Alessandro Melchiorri , Savvas Nesseris

In this work, we first discuss the possibility that dark energy models with negative energy density values in the past can alleviate the $H_0$ tension, as well as the discrepancy with the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) Lyman-$\alpha$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-09 Giovanni Acquaviva , Ozgur Akarsu , Nihan Katirci , J. Alberto Vazquez

The considerable difference between early and late universe measurements of the Hubble constant, called the Hubble tension, poses a potential challenge to the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. We examine an interacting dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yismaw Wassie Ambelu , Amare Abebe , Solomon Belay Tessema , Shambel Sahlu

The $\Lambda$CDM model has long served as the cornerstone of modern cosmology, offering an elegant and successful framework for interpreting a wide range of cosmological observations. However, the rise of high-precision datasets has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Manish Yadav , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M S Barak

Our cosmology contains Big Bang relic fluctuations by a loss of time-translation symmetry on a Hubble time scale. The contribution to the vacuum is identified with dynamical dark energy $\Lambda\simeq \alpha_p\Lambda_0$ by an IR coupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

We investigate an extended cosmological model motivated by the asymptotic safety of gravitational field theory, in which the matter and radiation densities and the cosmological constant receive a correction parametrized by the parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Li-Yang Gao , Ze-Wei Zhao , She-Sheng Xue , Xin Zhang

In this paper first we study Brans-Dicke equations with the cosmological constant to find an exact solution in the spatially flat Robertson-Walker metric. Then we use Observational Hubble data, the baryon acoustic oscillation distance ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Hassan Amirhashchi , Anil Kumar Yadav

Observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) together with weak lensing measurements of the clustering of large scale cosmological structures and local measurements of the Hubble constant pose a challenge to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Marco Raveri , Wayne Hu , Timothy Hoffman , Lian-Tao Wang

The LCDM model has been presented with a number of cosmic tensions in the face of precision cosmological data, suggesting the presence of a dynamical dark energy component. In this context, we investigate the cosmology arising from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Matthew Debono , Jackson Levi Said , Gabriel Farrugia