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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

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

Differences in the values of the Hubble constant obtained from the local universe and the early universe have resulted in a significant tension. This tension signifies that our understanding of cosmology (physical processes and/or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Gawain Simpson , Krzysztof Bolejko , Stephen Walters

We consider an Early Dark Energy (EDE) cosmological model, and perform an analysis which takes into account both background and perturbation effects via the parameters $c^{2}_{\rm eff}$ and $c^{2}_{\rm vis}$, representing effective sound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-17 Hasti Khoraminezhad , Matteo Viel , Carlo Baccigalupi , Maria Archidiacono

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 main aim of this work is to explore the possibility that cold dark matter (CDM) and early dark energy (EDE) can be described by canonical scalar fields that are coupled at the level of its conservation equations. The formalism covers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Gabriela Garcia-Arroyo , L. Arturo Ureña-López , J. Alberto Vázquez

New Early Dark Energy (NEDE) is a component of vacuum energy at the electron volt scale, which decays in a first-order phase transition shortly before recombination [arXiv:1910.10739]. The NEDE component has the potential to resolve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Florian Niedermann , 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

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 evaluate the effectiveness of Early Dark Energy (EDE) in addressing the Hubble tension using data from the completed eBOSS survey, focusing on luminous red galaxies (LRGs), quasars (QSOs), and emission line galaxies (ELGs). We perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 Rafaela Gsponer , Ruiyang Zhao , Jamie Donald-McCann , David Bacon , Kazuya Koyama , Robert Crittenden , Theo Simon , Eva-Maria Mueller

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

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

In pre-recombination early dark energy (EDE) resolutions of the Hubble tension, the rise of Hubble constant value $H_0$ is usually accompanied with the exacerbation of so-called $S_8$ tension. Inspired by the swampland conjecture, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Hao Wang , Yun-Song Piao

Polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is sensitive to new physics violating parity symmetry, such as the presence of a pseudoscalar "axionlike" field. Such a field may be responsible for early dark energy (EDE), which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Johannes R. Eskilt , Laura Herold , Eiichiro Komatsu , Kai Murai , Toshiya Namikawa , Fumihiro Naokawa

We revisit the impact of early dark energy (EDE) on galaxy clustering using BOSS galaxy power spectra, analyzed using the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale structure (LSS), and anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Tristan L. Smith , Vivian Poulin , José Luis Bernal , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski , Riccardo Murgia

Early dark energy (EDE) is a proposed solution to the Hubble tension in which a new cosmological field accelerates cosmic expansion prior to recombination and reduces the physical size of the sound horizon. In previous work, a slight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Adrien La Posta , Thibaut Louis , Xavier Garrido , J. Colin Hill

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 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

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

Early dark energy (EDE) offers a particularly interesting theoretical approach to the Hubble tension, albeit one that introduces its own set of challenges, including a new `why then' problem related to the EDE injection time at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Tanvi Karwal , Marco Raveri , Bhuvnesh Jain , Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden