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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 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

One of the most appealing approaches to ease the Hubble tension is the inclusion of an early dark energy (EDE) component that adds energy to the Universe in a narrow redshift window around the time of recombination and dilutes faster than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Matteo Braglia , William T. Emond , Fabio Finelli , A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Kazuya Koyama

Early dark energy (EDE), whose cosmological role is localized in time around the epoch of matter-radiation equality in order to resolve the Hubble tension, introduces a new coincidence problem: why should the EDE dynamics occur near…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Meng-Xiang Lin , Evan McDonough , J. Colin Hill , Wayne Hu

This work examines an early dark energy (EDE) scenario in the context of $F(R)$ gravity. EDE is introduced to alleviate the Hubble tension by temporarily injecting approximately $10\%$ of the energy fraction around the matter-radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Hua Chen , Taishi Katsuragawa , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Taotao Qiu

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

Here we test different models of dark energy beyond the standard cosmological constant scenario. We start considering the CPL parameterization of the equation of state (EOS), then we consider a dark energy scalar field (Quintessense).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

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

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

The idea of neutrino-assisted early dark energy ($\nu$EDE), where a coupling between neutrinos and the scalar field that models early dark energy (EDE) is considered, was introduced with the aim of reducing some of the fine-tuning and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-14 Diogo H. F. de Souza , Rogerio Rosenfeld

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

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