English
Related papers

Related papers: Is cosmological data suggesting a nonminimal coupl…

200 papers

We investigate the cosmological observational test of the extended quintessence model, i.e. a scalar-tensor gravity model with a scalar field potential serving as dark energy, by using the Planck 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Gong Cheng , Fengquan Wu , Xuelei Chen

We compare higher order gravity models to observational constraints from magnitude-redshift supernova data, distance to the last scattering surface of the CMB, and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. We follow a recently proposed systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jacob Moldenhauer , Mustapha Ishak

We consider a non-linear interaction between the dark matter and dark energy components of the universe. In particular, within the FLRW geometry, where dark matter is described by a dust fluid and dark energy by an ideal gas with a constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Marcel van der Westhuizen , David Figueruelo , Rethabile Thubisi , Shambel Sahlu , Amare Abebe , Andronikos Paliathanasis

The quasi-static solutions of the matter density perturbation in various dark energy models and modified gravity models have been investigated in numerous papers. However, the oscillating solutions in those models have not been investigated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 Jiro Matsumoto

Recent measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), especially when combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and supernova data, favor a late-time dark energy equation of state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Matteo Cataneo , Kazuya Koyama

Cosmic acceleration is widely believed to require either a source of negative pressure (i.e., dark energy), or a modification of gravity, which necessarily implies new degrees of freedom beyond those of Einstein gravity. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Lasha Berezhiani , Justin Khoury , Junpu Wang

We show that gravitational theories with a nonminimal coupling (NMC) to the matter fields lead to a violation of Etherington's distance-duality relation, which relates the luminosity and angular diameter distances. We derive constraints on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-25 R. P. L. Azevedo , P. P. Avelino

We study observational constraints on the modified symmetric teleparallel gravity, the non-metricity $f(Q)$ gravity, which reproduces background expansion of the universe. For this purpose, we use Hubble measurements, Baryonic Acoustic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-25 Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo

We study the cosmological predictions of two recently proposed non-local modifications of General Relativity. Both models have the same number of parameters as $\Lambda$CDM, with a mass parameter $m$ replacing the cosmological constant. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yves Dirian , Stefano Foffa , Martin Kunz , Michele Maggiore , Valeria Pettorino

We explore the dynamics and evolution of the Universe at early and late times, focusing on both dark energy and extended gravity models and their astrophysical and cosmological consequences. Modified theories of gravity not only provide an…

We explore the gravitational baryogenesis paradigm in the homogeneous and isotropic cosmology of generalized coupling gravity and, in particular, of the so-called Minimal Exponential Measure Model (MEMe). We show that, also in this theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 A. Troisi , G. Lambiase , S. Carloni

We assess dataset agreement and late-time predictive adequacy in $\Lambda$CDM and its sign-switching extension, $\Lambda_{\rm s}$CDM, using a suite of Gaussian and exact non-Gaussian consistency diagnostics. Both models are constrained with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Sehjal Khandelwal , Abraão J. S. Capistrano , Suresh Kumar

The relationship between the metric and nonrelativistic matter distribution depends on the theory of gravity and additional fields, providing a possible way of distinguishing competing theories. With the assumption that the geometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 Mustafa A. Amin , Robert V. Wagoner , Roger D. Blandford

Since the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the present Universe, significant theoretical developments have been made in the area of modified gravity. In the meantime, cosmological observations have been providing more high-quality…

We develop methods for investigating baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) features in cosmological models with non-trivial (but slowly varying) averaged spatial curvature: models that are not necessarily flat, close to flat, nor with constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Asta Heinesen , Chris Blake , Yong-Zhuang Li , David L. Wiltshire

We use all available baryon acoustic oscillation distance measurements and Hubble parameter data to constrain the cosmological constant $\Lambda$, dynamical dark energy, and spatial curvature in simple cosmological models. We find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Joseph Ryan , Sanket Doshi , Bharat Ratra

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Brian Williams

In this paper, instead of invoking Dark Energy, we try and fit various cosmological observations with a large Gpc scale under-dense region (Void) which is modeled by a Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi metric that at large distances becomes a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-25 Tirthabir Biswas , Alessio Notari , Wessel Valkenburg

The most recent measurements of the temperature and low-multipole polarization anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the Planck satellite, when combined with galaxy clustering data from the Baryon Oscillation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-13 Elena Giusarma , Martina Gerbino , Olga Mena , Sunny Vagnozzi , Shirley Ho , Katherine Freese

We report cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) when combined with recent data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT). By jointly analyzing ACT and…