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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 considerable difference between early and late universe measurements of the Hubble constant, called the Hubble tension, poses a potential challenge to the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. We examine an interacting dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Yismaw Wassie Ambelu , Amare Abebe , Solomon Belay Tessema , Shambel Sahlu

We employ the Planck 2013 CMB temperature anisotropy and lensing data, and baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data to constrain a phenomenological $w$CDM model, where dark matter and dark energy interact. We assume time-dependent equation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Jussi Valiviita , Elina Palmgren

In standard cosmologies, dark energy interacts only gravitationally with dark matter. There could be a non-gravitational interaction in the dark sector, leading to changes in the effective DE equation of state, in the redshift dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-13 Timothy Clemson , Kazuya Koyama , Gong-Bo Zhao , Roy Maartens , Jussi Väliviita

We perform a detailed analysis of a theoretically motivated dark energy quintessence model which interacts with the dark matter sector of the universe. Utilising the current observational datasets from the Cosmic Microwave Background,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-12 Atul Ashutosh Samanta , Abhijith Ajith , Sukanta Panda

In this work we model two non-linear directly interacting scenarios in dark sector of the universe with the dimensionless parameter $\alpha$ and $\beta$, which dominate the energy exchange between dark energy and dark matter. The central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Jiangang Kang

Models involving an interaction between the Dark Matter and the Dark Energy sectors have been proposed to alleviate the long standing Hubble constant tension. In this paper we analyze whether the constraints and potential hints obtained for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Eleonora Di Valentino , Olga Mena

Relaxing the conventional assumption of a minimal coupling between the dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) fields introduces significant changes in the predicted evolution of the Universe. Therefore, testing such a possibility constitutes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Rodrigo von Marttens , Javier E. Gonzalez , Jailson Alcaniz , Valerio Marra , Luciano Casarini

We explore an interacting dark sector model in trace-free Einstein gravity where dark energy has a constant equation of state, $w=-1$, and the energy-momentum transfer potential is proportional to the cold dark matter density. Compared to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Yuejia Zhai , Marco de Cesare , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino , Edward Wilson-Ewing

The coupled dark energy model provides a possible approach to mitigate the coincidence problem of cosmological standard model. Here, the coupling term is assumed as $\bar{Q}=3H\xi_x\bar{\rho}_x$, which is related to the interaction rate and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-11 Weiqiang Yang , Hang Li , Yabo Wu , Jianbo Lu

Cosmological models describing the non-gravitational interaction between dark matter and dark energy are based on some phenomenological choices of the interaction rates between dark matter and dark energy. There is no such guiding rule to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Supriya Pan , German S. Sharov , Weiqiang Yang

The cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm provides a remarkably good description of the Universe's large-scale structure. However, some discrepancies exist between its predictions and observations at very small sub-galactic scales. To address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Atrideb Chatterjee , Sourav Mitra , Amrita Banerjee

We study observational signatures of non-gravitational interactions between the dark components of the cosmic fluid, which can be either due to creation of dark particles from the expanding vacuum or an effect of the clustering of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-10 Micol Benetti , Welber Miranda , Humberto A. Borges , Cassio Pigozzo , Saulo Carneiro , Jailson S. Alcaniz

We determine the range of parameter space of an interacting quintessence (IQ) model that best fits the luminosity distance of type Ia supernovae data and the recent WMAP measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background temperature anisotropies.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 German Olivares , Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Diego Pavon

The paper deals with a theoretical model for interacting dark energy. The interaction between the cold dark matter (dust) and the dark energy has been assumed to be non-gravitational in nature. Exact analytic cosmological solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-31 Supriya Pan , Subhra Bhattacharya , Subenoy Chakraborty

The $\Lambda$CDM model has successfully explained a wide range of cosmological observations, but is increasingly challenged by the emergence of cosmological tensions, particularly the Hubble Tension $H_0$ and the $S_8$ tension. The Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Miguel A. Sabogal , Emanuelly Silva , Rafael C. Nunes , Suresh Kumar , Eleonora Di Valentino

We examine interactions between dark matter and dark energy in light of the latest cosmological observations, focusing on a specific model with coupling proportional to the dark energy density. Our data includes Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-10 Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Sunny Vagnozzi

Cosmological models involving an interaction between dark matter and dark energy have been proposed in order to solve the so-called coincidence problem. Different forms of coupling have been studied, but there have been claims that…

The next-generation CMB satellite missions are expected to provide robust constraints on a wide range of cosmological parameters with unprecedented precision. But these constraints on the parameters could weaken if we do not attribute dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Albin Joseph , Rajib Saha

While $\Lambda$CDM provides a good fit to cosmological data, it fails to address many of the outstanding questions in contemporary cosmology. Chief among these are the Hubble tension and the apparent dynamical nature of dark energy as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Amin Aboubrahim , Pran Nath