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It has been recently suggested~\cite{Berezhiani:2015yta} that a subdominant fraction of dark matter decaying after recombination may alleviate tension between high-redshift (CMB anisotropy) and low-redshift (Hubble constant, cluster counts)…

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We derive constraints on the injection of free-streaming dark radiation after big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) by considering the decay of a massive hidden sector particle into dark radiation. Such a scenario has the potential to alleviate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Alexander C. Sobotka , Adrienne L. Erickcek , Tristan L. Smith

We perform a multiprobe analysis combining cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from Planck and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), ACT CMB lensing, and large-scale structure (LSS) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Alexander Reeves , Simone Ferraro , Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier

Recent weak lensing surveys have revealed that the direct measurement of the parameter combination $S_8\equiv\sigma_8(\Omega_m/0.3)^{0.5}$ -- where $\sigma_8$ is a measure of the amplitude of matter fluctuations on 8 $h^{-1}$Mpc scales --…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Guillermo Franco Abellán , Riccardo Murgia , Vivian Poulin , Julien Lavalle

The precision of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments, specifically its lensing reconstruction, has reached the limit where non-linear corrections cannot be ignored. Neglecting these corrections results in biased constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Cynthia Trendafilova , Ali Rida Khalife , Silvia Galli

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

In this work, we present updated observational constraints on the parameter space of the DMS20 dark energy model, a member of the omnipotent dark energy (ODE) class. Our analysis combines multiple CMB datasets - including measurements from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-28 Enrico Specogna , Shahnawaz A. Adil , Emre Ozulker , Eleonora Di Valentino , Rafael C. Nunes , Ozgur Akarsu , Anjan A. Sen

We revisited the decaying dark matter (DDM) model, in which one collisionless particle decays early into two collisionless particles, that are potentially dark matter particles today. The effect of DDM will be manifested in the cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-20 Ran Huo

We study a two-parameter extension of the cosmological standard model $\Lambda$CDM in which cold dark matter interacts with a new form of dark radiation. The two parameters correspond to the energy density in the dark radiation fluid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-14 Julien Lesgourgues , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Martin Schmaltz

We present cosmological parameters measurements from the full combination of DESI DR1 galaxy clustering data described with large-scale structure effective field theory. By incorporating additional datasets (photometric galaxies and CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Mikhail M. Ivanov , James M. Sullivan , Shi-Fan Chen , Anton Chudaykin , Mark Maus , Oliver H. E. Philcox

Hubble tension can be alleviated by altering either early- or late-time $\Lambda$CDM. With only one of these effects introduced, early dark energy remains the only solution capable of reducing the tension to the $3\sigma$ level or below. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Quan Zhou , Zixuan Xu , Sibo Zheng

We investigate how the properties of dark energy affect the cosmological measurements of neutrino mass and extra relativistic degrees of freedom. We limit ourselves to the most basic extensions of $\Lambda$ cold dark matter (CDM) model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Ming-Ming Zhao , Yun-He Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

[abridged] We constrain a phenomenological dark radiation (DR) framework consisting of free-streaming and fluid-like components, providing a model-independent extension of the standard radiation sector. Using Planck CMB data, DESI DR2 BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Matteo Mescia , Héctor Gil-Marín

The Planck experiment has measured the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) angular spectrum with unprecedented accuracy, and these results are likely to remain the state-of-the art for a decade or more. Since these measurements are going to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Julia Stadler , Céline Bœhm

The recent release of high-precision cosmological data, particularly the small-scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements from ACT and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from DESI, has opened a new landscape for probing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Lu Feng , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We constrain plausible dark energy models, parametrized by multiple candidate equation of state, using the recently published Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature anisotropy data from Planck together with the WMAP-9 low-$\ell$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-22 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Subhabrata Majumdar , Supratik Pal , Sudhakar Panda , Anjan A. Sen

We analyze cosmic microwave background (CMB) data to constrain the mass and interaction strengths of thermally-produced dark matter (DM) in a self-consistent manner, simultaneously taking into account the cosmological effects of its mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Rui An , Kimberly K. Boddy , Vera Gluscevic

Considering the mass splittings of three active neutrinos, we investigate how the nature of dark energy affects the cosmological constraints on the total neutrino mass $\sum m_\nu$ using the latest cosmological observations. In this paper,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ming Zhang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Decaying dark matter (DDM) scenarios have recently regained attention due to their potential ability to resolve the well-known clustering (or $S_8$) tension between weak lensing (WL) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Jozef Bucko , Sambit K. Giri , Fabian Hervas Peters , Aurel Schneider

We constrain and compare the $w_{0}w_{a}$CDM dynamical dark energy model and three $f(R)$ modified gravity models using the current cosmological distance measurements, including 112 high-quality localized FRBs, BAO measurements from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Shuai Feng , Yan Gong , Xiaohui Liu , Jun-Hui Yan , Xuelei Chen