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The cosmic curvature, a fundamental parameter for cosmology could hold deep clues to inflation and cosmic origins. We propose an improved model-independent method to constrain the cosmic curvature by combining the constructed Hubble diagram…

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The thermodynamic and dynamical properties of a variable dark energy model with density scaling as rho_x \propto (1+z)^m, z being the redshift, are discussed following the outline of Jetzer et al. This kind of models are proven to lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-08 Philippe Jetzer , Crescenzo Tortora

The values of Hubble constant H0 by direct measurements with standard distance ladder are typically larger than those obtained from the observation of cosmic microwave background and the galaxy survey with inverse distance ladder. On the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Noriaki Kitazawa

Recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements over a large range of angular scales have become sensitive enough to provide interesting constraints on cosmological parameters within a restricted class of models. We use the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Charles H. Lineweaver , Domingos Barbosa

We constrain two vacuum decay models ($\Lambda(t)$CDM, proposed by the authors of~\cite{Brito:2024bhh}) utilizing the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) data released by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), distance prior from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yupeng Yang , Yicheng Wang , Xinyi Dai

The cosmic microwave background temperature is a cornerstone astrophysical observable. Its present value is tightly constrained, but its redshift dependence, which can now be determined until redshift $z\sim6.34$, is also an important probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 L. Gelo , C. J. A. P. Martins , N. Quevedo , A. M. M. Vieira

We compile a list of $14$ independent measurements of large-scale structure growth rate between redshifts $0.067 \leq z \leq 0.8$ and use this to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-evolving general-relativistic dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anatoly Pavlov , Omer Farooq , Bharat Ratra

We use updated Type Ia Pantheon+ supernova, baryon acoustic oscillation, and Hubble parameter (now also accounting for correlations) data, as well as new reverberation-measured C IV quasar data, and quasar angular size, H II starburst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-19 Shulei Cao , Bharat Ratra

In the realm of the $\omega$CDM cosmological model with quiescence or quintessence as the dark energy, characterized by $\omega>-1$, there exists a fixed value of $H(z)$ at $z=-1$, devoid of dependency on other cosmological parameters. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Cheqiu Lyu , Wei Hong , Tong-Jie Zhang

We propose a new intuitive metric for evaluating the tension between two experiments, and apply it to several data sets. While our metric is non-optimal, if evidence of tension is detected, this evidence is robust and easy to interpret.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Youngsoo Park , Eduardo Rozo

The mass function of cluster-size halos and their redshift distribution are computed for 12 distinct accelerating cosmological scenarios and confronted to the predictions of the conventional flat $\Lambda$CDM model. The comparison with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 S. Basilakos , M. Plionis , J. A. S. Lima

The recent robust and homogeneous analysis of the world's supernova distance-redshift data, together with cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillation data, provides a powerful tool for constraining cosmological models. Here…

Aiming at exploring the nature of dark energy, we use thirty-six observational Hubble parameter data (OHD) in the redshift range $0 \leqslant z \leqslant 2.36$ to make a cosmological model-independent test of the two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-10 Xiao-Lei Meng , Xin Wang , Shi-Yu Li , Tong-Jie Zhang

Observations conducted over the last few decades show that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. In the standard model of cosmology, this accelerated expansion is attributed to a dark energy in the form of a cosmological constant.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-22 Joseph Ryan

It has been widely shown that the cosmological parameters and dark energy can be constrained by using data from type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy, the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , Zong-Hong Zhu

Any theory invoked to explain cosmic acceleration predicts consistency relations between the expansion history, structure growth, and all related observables. Currently there exist high-quality measurements of the expansion history from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 R. Ali Vanderveld , Michael J. Mortonson , Wayne Hu , Tim Eifler

Perhaps the deepest mystery of our accelerating Universe in expansion is the existence of a tiny and rigid cosmological constant, $\Lambda$. Its size is many orders of magnitude below the expected one in the standard model of particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-03 Joan Sola , Adria Gomez-Valent

Cosmological measurements over the next decade will enable us to shed light on the content and evolution of the Universe. Complementary measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley

The luminosity-redshift relation of cosmological standard candles provides information about the relative energy composition of our Universe. In particular, the observation of type Ia supernovae up to redshift of z~2 indicate a universe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 Markus Ahlers

We use the Simon, Verde, & Jimenez (2005) determination of the redshift dependence of the Hubble parameter to constrain cosmological parameters in three dark energy cosmological models. We consider the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, the XCDM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Lado Samushia , Bharat Ratra