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We study the implications of the Planck temperature power spectrum at low multipoles, $\ell<1000$, and SPTPol data. We show that this combination predicts consistent lensing-induced smoothing of acoustic peaks within $\Lambda$CDM cosmology…

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This paper introduces the class of omnipotent dark energy (DE) models characterized by nonmonotonic energy densities that are capable of attaining negative values with corresponding equation of state parameters featuring phantom divide line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shahnawaz A. Adil , Ozgur Akarsu , Eleonora Di Valentino , Rafael C. Nunes , Emre Ozulker , Anjan A. Sen , Enrico Specogna

Early dark energy, an additional component of dark energy active in the decade of redshift before recombination, has emerged as one of the most effective models at reducing the $H_0$ tension between direct measurement of the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Théo Simon , Tal Adi , José Luis Bernal , Ely D. Kovetz , Vivian Poulin , Tristan L. Smith

Consistent observations indicate that some of the important cosmological parameters measured through the local observations are in huge tension with their measurements from the global observations (within the minimal $\Lambda$CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Arman Shafieloo , Subenoy Chakraborty

We show that the strong constraints placed by Planck NPIPE Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data on axion-like early dark energy (EDE) are significantly alleviated in models with multiple fields. We find a $1.5\sigma$ residual tension with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Marco Bella , Vivian Poulin , Sunny Vagnozzi , Lloyd Knox

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

JWST has revealed a large population of ultra-violet (UV)-bright galaxies at $z\gtrsim 10$ and possibly overly massive galaxies at $z\gtrsim 7$, challenging standard galaxy formation models in the $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We use an empirical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-09 Xuejian Shen , Mark Vogelsberger , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Sandro Tacchella , Rohan P. Naidu

We investigate the viability of a cosmological scenario with interacting dark sector, which can describe the coexistence between dark energy and dark matter. The model possesses an analytical solution for the Hubble function and we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Shambel Sahlu , Andronikos Paliathanasis , Genly Leon , Amare Abebe

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most fundamental and unresolved questions in modern cosmology. In most cosmological models, dark matter is typically modeled as pressureless dust with an equation of state (EoS) parameter $w_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Tian-Nuo Li , Yi-Min Zhang , Yan-Hong Yao , Peng-Ju Wu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We investigate constraints on some key cosmological parameters by confronting metastable dark energy models with different combinations of the most recent cosmological observations. Along with the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Xiaolei Li , Arman Shafieloo , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

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

Despite the fact that the $\Lambda$CDM model has been highly successful over the last few decades in providing an accurate fit to a broad range of cosmological and astrophysical observations, different intriguing tensions and anomalies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Pietro Ghedini , Rasmi Hajjar , Olga Mena

In the realm of thermodynamics of apparent horizon, we construct a dark energy (DE) model from 4-parameter generalized entropy of apparent horizon in a spatially non-flat universe. In particular, considering a non-zero spatial curvature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-07 Sergei D. Odintsov , Simone D'Onofrio , Tanmoy Paul

The increasing quality of cosmological data has revealed some tensions that could be signalling the necessity of incorporating new physics into our cosmological model. One particularly intriguing possibility is the existence of elastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Dario Bettoni , David Figueruelo , Florencia A. Teppa Pannia

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

The canonical acoustic dark energy model (cADE), which is based on a scalar field with a canonical kinetic term that rapidly converts potential to kinetic energy around matter radiation equality, alleviates the Hubble tension found in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Meng-Xiang Lin , Wayne Hu , Marco Raveri

The recent analysis from the SH0ES Collaboration has confirmed the existence of a Hubble tension between measurements at high redshift ($z> 1000$) and at low redshift ($z<1$) at the $5\sigma$ level with the low redshift measurement giving a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Amin Aboubrahim , Michael Klasen , Pran Nath

The coupling between dark sectors provides a possible approach to mitigate the coincidence problem of cosmological standard model. In this paper, dark energy is treated as a fluid with a constant equation of state, whose coupling with dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Weiqiang Yang , Lixin Xu

The coupling between the dark components provides a new approach to mitigate the coincidence problem of cosmological standard model. In this paper, dark energy is treated as a fluid with a constant equation of state, whose coupling with…

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