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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made startling discoveries regarding the early universe. It has revealed galaxies as soon as 300 million years after the Big Bang, challenging current galaxy formation models. Additionally, it has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-19 Félix Llorente de Andrés

We present a generalization of Rastall's gravity in which the conservation law of the energy-momentum tensor is altered, and as a result, the trace of the energy-momentum tensor is taken into account together with the Ricci scalar in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-24 Clésio E. Mota , Luis C. N. Santos , Franciele M. da Silva , Guilherme Grams , Iarley P. Lobo , Débora P. Menezes

Absent any indirect tests on the thermal history of the Universe prior to the formation of light nuclear elements, it is legitimate to investigate situations where, before nucleosyntheis, the sound speed of the plasma was larger than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Massimo Giovannini

In this study, we explore the thermodynamic aspects of a modified version of Rastall's gravity theory and its implications for cosmological scenarios. We analyze the role of non-conserved energy-momentum tensor equations and investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 José A. C. Nogales , K. Luz-Burgoa , Laysa G. Martins

A complete analysis of the dynamics of the Hu-Sawicki modification to General Relativity is presented. In particular, the full phase-space is given for the case in which the model parameters are taken to be n=1, c1=1, and several stable de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-03 Sulona Kandhai , Peter K. S. Dunsby

The tension between measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$ locally and the value inferred from Planck satellite have provided a strong motivation to explore theoretical frameworks beyond the standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM). To…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 R. Mohebi , Kh. Saaidi T. Golanbari , K. Karami

The current standard cosmological model is constructed within the framework of general relativity with a cosmological constant $\Lambda$, which is often associated with dark energy, and phenomenologically explains the accelerated cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 Jiamin Hou , Julian Bautista , Maria Berti , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , César Hernández-Aguayo , Tilman Tröster , Jinglan Zheng

The use of time-delay gravitational lenses to examine the cosmological expansion introduces a new standard ruler with which to test theoretical models. The sample suitable for this kind of work now includes 12 lens systems, which have thus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , Fulvio Melia

The testing of general relativity at cosmological scales has become a possible and timely endeavor that is not only motivated by the pressing question of cosmic acceleration but also by the proposals of some extensions to general relativity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jason Dossett , Mustapha Ishak , Jacob Moldenhauer

We discuss the cosmological degeneracy between the Hubble parameter H(z), the age of the universe and cosmological parameters describing simple variations from the minimal LCDM model. We show that independent determinations of the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Daniel G. Figueroa , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

In this paper, we use a set of observational $H(z)$ data (OHD) to constrain the $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. This data set can be derived from the differential ages of the passively evolving galaxies. Meanwhile, the $\mathcal {A}$-parameter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hui Lin , Cheng Hao , Xiao Wang , Qiang Yuan , Ze-Long Yi , Tong-Jie Zhang , Bao-Quan Wang

We have shown that the varying physical constant model is consistent with the recently published variational approach wherein Einstein equations are modified to include the variation of the speed of light c, gravitational constant G and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-21 Rajendra P. Gupta

The recent observational evidence for the current cosmic acceleration have stimulated renewed interest in alternative cosmologies, such as scenarios with interaction in the dark sector (dark matter and dark energy). In general, such models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. S. Goncalves , J. S. Alcaniz , A. Dev , D. Jain

Deviations from general relativity, such as could be responsible for the cosmic acceleration, would influence the growth of large scale structure and the deflection of light by that structure. We clarify the relations between several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Scott F. Daniel , Eric V. Linder , Tristan L. Smith , Robert R. Caldwell , Asantha Cooray , Alexie Leauthaud , Lucas Lombriser

We give a Lagrangian formulation for the theory of Rastall of gravitation. After proposing a Lagrangian density that reproduces the equations of motion postulated by Rastall, we study the cosmological consequences and fit the parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-31 Renato Vieira dos Santos , José A. C. Nogales

We use data from observational cosmology to put constraints on higher-dimensional extensions of general relativity in which the effective four-dimensional dark-energy density (or cosmological "constant") decays with time. In particular we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Overduin , P. S. Wesson , B. Mashhoon

In this work, the cosmic solutions, particularly the well-known $\Lambda$CDM model, are investigated in the framework of the Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where the gravitational action incorporates the Gauss-Bonnet invariant function. We utilize a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-26 N. Myrzakulov , Anirudh Pradhan , Archana Dixit , S. H. Shekh

A new method of measuring cosmology with gamma-ray bursts(GRBs) has been proposed by Liang and Zhang recently. In this method, only observable quantities including the rest frame peak energy of the \nu F_\nu spectrum (E'_p), the isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

In this paper, the dynamical behavior of the accelerated expansion of the universe is discussed within the framework of $f(T)$ gravity, considering power law functional form of $ f(T)=\alpha (-T)^{n}$. Two distinct redshift-dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Shivank Pal , Romanshu Garg , Gyan Prakash Singh , Gauree Shanker

Modified gravity, known as $f(R)$ gravity, has presently been applied to Cosmology as a realistic alternative to dark energy. For this kind of gravity the expansion of the Universe may accelerate while containing only baryonic and cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-01 N. Pires , J. Santos , J. S. Alcaniz