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The paper brings a novel approach to unification of dark matter and dark energy in terms of a cosmic fluid. A model is introduced in which the cosmic fluid speed of sound squared is defined as a function of its equation of state (EoS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-06 Dalibor Perkovic , Hrvoje Stefancic

In this paper, we perform a forecast analysis to test the capacity of future baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to constrain phenomenological interacting dark energy models using the Fisher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-23 Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Jerome Quintin

Models in which dark energy interacts with dark matter have been proposed in the literature to help explain why dark energy should only come to dominate in recent times. In this paper, we present a dynamical framework to calculate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Sirichai Chongchitnan

Any unified dark matter cosmology can be decomposed into dark matter interacting with vacuum energy, without introducing any additional degrees of freedom. We present observational constraints on an interacting vacuum plus dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 Yuting Wang , David Wands , Lixin Xu , Josue De-Santiago , Alireza Hojjati

Unified cosmological models have received a lot of attention in astrophysics community for explaining both the dark matter and dark energy evolution. The Chaplygin cosmologies, a well known name in this group have been investigated matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Subir Ghosh , Yabo Wu

Recent results regarding dark energy are mutually inconsistent under the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model, hinting at the possibility of undiscovered physics. However, the currently accepted cosmological parameters come from a joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Charles L. Steinhardt , Preston Phillips , Radoslaw Wojtak

We revise the cosmological interaction between dark energy and dark matter. More precisely, we focus on models that support compartmentalization or co-existence in the dark sector of the universe. Within the framework of a homogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-25 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Kevin Duffy , Amlan Halder , Amare Abebe

The Universe is modeled as consisting of pressureless baryonic matter and a bulk viscous fluid which is supposed to represent a unified description of the dark sector. In the homogeneous and isotropic background the \textit{total} energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 W. Zimdahl , H. E. S. Velten , W. S. Hipólito-Ricaldi

We use the latest compilation of observational Hubble parameter measurements estimated with the differential evolution of cosmic chronometers, in combination with the local value of the Hubble constant recently measured with 2.4% precision,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We propose a unified theory of dark matter (DM) genesis and baryogenesis. It explains the observed link between the DM density and the baryon density, and is fully testable by a combination of collider experiments and precision tests. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-04 Lawrence J. Hall , John March-Russell , Stephen M. West

A data-driven approach to elucidating the nature of the dark energy, in the form of a joint analysis of a full set of cosmological parameters, utilizing all available observational data is proposed. A parameterization of a generalized dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Greg Huey

In this work we study in detail a phenomenological generalization of the Chaplygin cosmological model, which we call as \textit{umami} Chaplygin model. We consider three different cosmological background scenarios in which our fluid can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 Ruth Lazkoz , María Ortiz-Baños , Vincenzo Salzano

In this paper, we constrain dark energy models using a compendium of observations at low redshifts. We consider the dark energy as a barotropic fluid, with the equation of state a constant as well the case where dark energy equation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ashutosh Tripathi , Archana Sangwan , H. K. Jassal

Interacting dark energy models may play a crucial role in explaining several important observational issues in modern cosmology and also may provide a solution to current cosmological tensions. Since the phenomenology of the dark sector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Olga Mena , Eleonora Di Valentino

We discuss some cosmological consequences of a general model of coupled quintessence in which the phenomenological coupling between the cold dark matter and dark energy is a function of the cosmic scale factor $\epsilon(a)$. This class of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 F. E. M. Costa

The recent observational evidence for the current cosmic acceleration have stimulated renewed interest in alternative cosmologies, such as scenarios with interaction in the dark sector (dark matter and dark energy). In general, such models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. S. Goncalves , J. S. Alcaniz , A. Dev , D. Jain

We study a generalized version of Chaplygin gas as unified model of dark matter and dark energy. Using realistic theoretical models and the currently available observational data from the age of the universe, the expansion history based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Chan-Gyung Park , Jai-chan Hwang , Jaehong Park , Hyerim Noh

We consider a universe filled by a modified generalized Chaplygin gas together with a pressureless dark matter component. We get a thermodynamical interpretation for the modified generalized Chaplygin gas confined to the apparent horizon of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-18 H. Ebadi , H. Moradpour

We investigate the thermodynamics of general fluids that have the constriction that their pressure is constant. For example, this happens in the case of pure dust matter, for which the pressure vanishes and also in the case of standard dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Alejandro Aviles , Norman Cruz , Jaime Klapp , Orlando Luongo

In this paper we have investigated the limits imposed by thermodynamics on a dark energy fluid. We have obtained the heat capacities and the compressibilities for a dark energy fluid. The thermal and mechanical stabilities require these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-02 Edésio M. Barboza , Rafael C. Nunes , Éverton M. C. Abreu , Jorge Ananias Neto