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Recent measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) by the Planck Collaboration have produced arguably the most powerful observational evidence in support of the standard model of cosmology, i.e. the spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-10 S. Grandis , D. Rapetti , A. Saro , J. J. Mohr , J. P. Dietrich

Hubble tension is routinely presented as a mismatch between the Hubble constant $H_0$ determined locally and a value inferred from the flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. In essence, the tension boils down to a disagreement between two numbers.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 Chethan Krishnan , Eoin Ó Colgáin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , Tao Yang

We present strong evidence for dynamical dark energy that challenges the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. Several dark energy scenarios are explored, including $\omega_0\omega_a$CDM, logarithmic, exponential, JBP, and BA parameterizations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Himanshu Chaudhary , Salvatore Capozziello , Subhrat Praharaj , Shibesh Kumar Jas Pacif , G. Mustafa

In this study, we incorporated a three-parameter family, of the metric incompatible modification of standard general relativity $f(Q)$ models into the Boltzmann code MGCLASS at both the background and perturbation levels, in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Ziad Sakr , Leonid Schey

The cosmic dipole measured in surveys of cosmologically distant sources is generally found to be in disagreement with the kinematic expectation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This discrepancy represents severe tension with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Mali Land-Strykowski , Geraint F. Lewis , Tara Murphy

It is shown that the serious problem on the cosmological tension between the direct measurements of the Hubble constant at present and the constant derived from the Planck measurements of the CMB anisotropies can be solved by considering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-09 Kenji Tomita

The recent local measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$, indicate a significant discrepancy of over 5$\sigma$ compared to the value inferred from \textit{Planck} observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Guanlin Liu , Yu Wang , Wen Zhao

Since the public release of Planck data, several attempts have been made to explain the observed small tensions with other data-sets, most of them involving an extension of the {\Lambda}CDM Model. We try here an alternative approach to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Benjamin Audren

Yes, for a wide range of cosmological models ($\Lambda$CDM, non-interacting $w_z$CDM or models with possible interactions between dark energy and dark matter, in either phantom or non-phantom regimes). In the recent past there have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-17 Archita Bhattacharyya , Ujjaini Alam , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Subinoy Das , Supratik Pal

The $\Lambda$CDM model has successfully explained a wide range of cosmological observations, but is increasingly challenged by the emergence of cosmological tensions, particularly the Hubble Tension $H_0$ and the $S_8$ tension. The Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Miguel A. Sabogal , Emanuelly Silva , Rafael C. Nunes , Suresh Kumar , Eleonora Di Valentino

The Cosmological Principle is part of the foundation that underpins the standard model of the Universe. In the era of precision cosmology, when stress tests of the standard model are uncovering various tensions and possible anomalies, it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Caroline Guandalin , Jade Piat , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

Hubble tension is a problem in one-dimensional (1D) posteriors, since local $H_0$ determinations are only sensitive to a single parameter. Projected 1D posteriors for $\Lambda$CDM cosmological parameters become more non-Gaussian with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Eoin Ó Colgáin , Saeed Pourojaghi , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , Darragh Sherwin

We apply a tension metric $Q_\textrm{UDM}$, the update difference in mean parameters, to understand the source of the difference in the measured Hubble constant $H_0$ inferred with cosmic microwave background lensing measurements from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-02 W. L. Kimmy Wu , Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Marco Raveri

This study presents an analysis of cosmological parameters, focusing on resolving the Hubble tension and constraining neutrino masses within a coupled quintom model. By utilizing datasets from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), Pantheon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-29 Muhammad Yarahmadi , Amin Salehi , Ameneh Tohidi

Measurements of the current expansion rate of the Universe, $H_0$, using standard candles, disagree with those derived from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This discrepancy, known as the Hubble tension, is substantial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-05 Sergio Torres-Arzayus

Measurements of the $H_0$ and $\sigma_8$ parameters within the standard cosmological model recently highlighted significant statistical tensions between the cosmic microwave background and low-redshift probes, such as local distance ladder,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Rocco D'Agostino , Rafael C. Nunes

A critical discussion on the $H_0$ Hubble constant tension is presented by considering both early and late-type observations. From recent precise measurements, discrepancies emerge when comparing results for some cosmological quantities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-20 Salvatore Capozziello , Giuseppe Sarracino , Giulia De Somma

We consider a new cosmological model (called $\tilde\Lambda$CDM) in which the vacuum energy interacts with matter and radiation, and test this model using the current cosmological observations. Using the CMB+BAO+SN (CBS) dataset to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Li-Yang Gao , She-Sheng Xue , Xin Zhang

The $\rm\Lambda$CDM cosmological model is remarkable: with just 6 parameters it describes the evolution of the Universe from a very early time when all structures were quantum fluctuations on subatomic scales to the present, and it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 Michael S. Turner

The discrepancy between early-Universe inferences and direct measurements of the Hubble constant, known as the Hubble tension, recently became a pressing subject in high precision cosmology. As a result, a large variety of theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Tal Adi , Ely D. Kovetz