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Early dark energy (EDE) is an extension to the $\Lambda$CDM model, proposed to reduce the tension between the measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$ from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and from the local cosmic distance ladder.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 João Rebouças , Jonathan Gordon , Diogo H. F. de Souza , Kunhao Zhong , Vivian Miranda , Rogerio Rosenfeld , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause

Early dark energy (EDE), introduced at the epoch of matter-radiation equality to alleviate the Hubble tension, has posed a new coincidence problem: why EDE appears at matter-radiation equality when their physics are completely unrelated? To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-07 Changcheng Jing , Shuxun Tian , Zong-Hong Zhu

The tension between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and that measured from late-time observations, such as the local distance ladder, is a major challenge in modern cosmology. Early dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Mai Yashiki

Early dark energy (EDE) models are a class of quintessence dark energy with a dynamically evolving scalar field which display a small but non-negligible amount of dark energy at the epoch of matter-radiation equality. Compared with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Difu Shi , Carlton M. Baugh

We consider the interplay of the Early Dark Energy (EDE) model, the Swampland Distance Conjecture (SDC), and cosmological parameter tensions. EDE is a proposed resolution of the Hubble tension relying upon a near-Planckian scalar field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Evan McDonough , Meng-Xiang Lin , J. Colin Hill , Wayne Hu , Shengjia Zhou

We test the $n$=3 Ultralight Axion-like model of Early Dark Energy (EDE) with the observationsof the $EB$ mode of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and local expansion rate measurements. Our results show that the shape of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Joby Kochappan , Lu Yin , Bum-Hoon Lee , Tuhin Ghosh

The early dark energy (EDE) model is one of the promising solutions to the Hubble tension. One of the successes of the EDE model is that it can provide a similar fit to the $\Lambda$CDM model for the CMB power spectrum. In this work, I…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Jun-Qian Jiang

A dark energy-like component in the early universe, known as early dark energy (EDE), is a proposed solution to the Hubble tension. Currently, there is no consensus in the literature as to whether EDE can simultaneously solve the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Laura Herold , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Eiichiro Komatsu

The early dark energy (EDE) extension to $\Lambda$CDM has been proposed as a candidate scenario to resolve the "Hubble tension". We present new constraints on the EDE model by incorporating new data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Frank J. Qu , Kristen M. Surrao , Boris Bolliet , J. Colin Hill , Blake D. Sherwin , Hidde T. Jense

Early dark energy (EDE) models have attracted attention in the context of the recent problem of the Hubble tension. Here we extend these models by taking into account the new density fluctuations generated by the EDE which decays around the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-29 Shintaro Hayashi , Teppei Minoda , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data acquired by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the large-scale ($\ell\lesssim1300$) Planck Telescope show a preference for the Early Dark Energy (EDE) theory, which was set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 Weiyang Liu , Hu Zhan , Yan Gong , Xin Wang

In this paper, we introduce two coupling models of early dark energy (EDE) and cold dark matter aimed at alleviating cosmological tensions. We utilize the EDE component in the coupling models to relieve the Hubble tension, while leveraging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Gang Liu , Jiaze Gao , Yufen Han , Yuhao Mu , Lixin Xu

Within the standard cosmological model, the presence of Dark Energy (DE) is the only structural difference between the early and late times Universe. While its presence is in full display at late times, it is irrelevant at early times,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Marco Raveri

A compelling unified model of dark energy and early dark energy (EDE) is presented, using a scalar field with an exponential runaway potential, in the context of alpha-attractors. The field is originally trapped at an enhanced symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Lucy Brissenden , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Samuel Sánchez López

The Hubble ($H_0$) tension between direct measurements of the expansion rate and the prediction of the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model calibrated on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), is a strong motivation to explore alternative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Clément Stahl , Vivian Poulin , Benoit Famaey , Rodrigo Ibata

Axion-like early dark energy (EDE) as an extension to $\Lambda$CDM has been proposed as a possible solution to the 'Hubble tension'. We revisit this model using a new cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 George Efstathiou , Erik Rosenberg , Vivian Poulin

Current cosmological data exhibit discordance between indirect and some direct inferences of the present-day expansion rate, $H_0$. Early dark energy (EDE), which briefly increases the cosmic expansion rate prior to recombination, is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-19 Samuel Goldstein , J. Colin Hill , Vid Iršič , Blake D. Sherwin

Cold New Early Dark Energy (Cold NEDE) addresses the Hubble tension through a triggered vacuum phase transition in the dark sector. In this paper, we constrain a phenomenological fluid model using recent cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Aleksandr Chatrchyan , Florian Niedermann , Vivian Poulin , Martin S. Sloth

In this work, we explore the possibility that Early Dark Energy (EDE) is dynamical in nature and study its effect on cosmological observables. We introduce a parameterization of the equation of state allowing for an equation of state $w$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-04 Ravi Kumar Sharma , Subinoy Das , Vivian Poulin

It has been noted that with the pre-recombination early dark energy (EDE) resolution of Hubble tension, the preference of recent datasets for the evolving dark energy (DE) can be suppressed significantly. In this work, we clarify and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Hao Wang , Yun-Song Piao