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A large number of studies, all using Bayesian parameter inference from Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, have constrained the presence of a decaying dark matter component. All such studies find a strong preference for either very long-lived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-04 Emil Brinch Holm , Laura Herold , Steen Hannestad , Andreas Nygaard , Thomas Tram

Recently, the measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) indicate a potential deviation from the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. Some studies suggest that the data points from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Jie Zheng , Da-Chun Qiang , Zhi-Qiang You

We investigate the late-time imprints of three dark energy (DE) models, namely, the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) parametrization, $\Lambda_{\rm s}$CDM, and an Omnipotent DE model, on cosmological observables sensitive to the time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Payam Ghafari , Mahdi Najafi , Mina Ghodsi Yengejeh , Emre Özülker , Eleonora Di Valentino , Javad T. Firouzjaee

This paper examines interacting dark energy models within the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) parametrization, emphasizing both theoretical structure and observational viability. Two commonly adopted interaction terms are considered: $Q =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Gerald Neumann , Nelson Videla , Dorian Araya

Recent DESI results indicate a strong preference for dynamical dark energy (DE) when baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements are combined with supernovae (SNe) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) data using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Shubham Barua , Shantanu Desai

Dark energy (DE) models with many free parameters are often considered excessive, as constraining all parameters poses a significant challenge. While such models offer greater flexibility to probe the DE sector in more detail. With the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Hanyu Cheng , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino

We introduce two three-parameter extensions of the minimal Akhtar-Hossain (mAH) dark energy parametrization, termed modified minimal AH (MmAH1 and MmAH2), which provide a smooth and bounded evolution of the dark energy equation of state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Sonej Alam , Md. Wali Hossain

In this study, we use a flexible parametrization of the equation of state of dark energy to explore its possible evolution with datasets from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), Planck cosmic microwave background, and either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ryan E. Keeley , Kevork N. Abazajian , Manoj Kaplinghat , Arman Shafieloo

We present strong evidence for dynamical dark energy that challenges the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. Several dark energy scenarios are explored, including $\omega_0\omega_a$CDM, logarithmic, exponential, JBP, and BA parameterizations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Himanshu Chaudhary , Salvatore Capozziello , Subhrat Praharaj , Shibesh Kumar Jas Pacif , G. Mustafa

Observational data play a pivotal role in identifying cosmological models that are both theoretically consistent and empirically viable. In this work, we investigate the level of preference for dynamical dark energy over a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Himanshu Chaudhary , Vipin Kumar Sharma , Salvatore Capozziello , G. Mustafa

Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) provides a powerful tool to measure cosmic expansion and consequently the nature of the Dark Energy (DE). Recent precise BAO measurements by Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument data release 1 (DESI DR1),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Ramy Fikri , Esraa Elkhateeb , E. I. Lashin , Waleed El Hanafy

In this paper we obtain observational constraints on three dynamical cold dark energy models ,include PL , CPL and FSL, with most recent cosmological data and investigate their implication for structure formation, dark energy clustering and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-15 Aghileh S. Ebrahimi , M. Monemzadeh , H. Moshafi

Recent observations of DESI hint that dark matter (DM) may not be cold but have a non-zero equation of state (EoS) parameter, and that dark energy (DE) may not be a cosmological constant. In this work, we explore the possibility of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Tian-Nuo Li , Peng-Ju Wu , Guo-Hong Du , Yan-Hong Yao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In this work, we present a study on cosmological constraints of dark energy (DE) parametrizations after the observations of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instruments (DESI) for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in 2024, suggesting potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 M. Malekjani , Z. Davari , S. Pourojaghi

To elucidate the robustness of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data measured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in capturing the dynamical behavior of dark energy, we assess the model dependence of the evidence for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Qing Gao , Zhiqian Peng , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong

We present a comprehensive analysis of the cosmological implications of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2) Lyman-$\alpha$ forest baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements, combined with DESI DR2 galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Salvatore Capozziello , Himanshu Chaudhary , G. Mustafa , S. K. J. Pacif

We examine several dark energy models with a time-varying equation of state parameter, $w(z)$, to determine what information can be derived by fitting the distance modulus in such models to a constant equation of state parameter, $w_*$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Samuel S. Taylor , Robert J. Scherrer

Observational constraints are considered on a $w_{log}$CDM model of the dark energy equation of state, $w_{d}(z) = w_{0} + w_{a}\left( \frac{\ln(2+z)}{1+z} - \ln 2 \right)$, using the most recent cosmological datasets including DESI Baryon…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Saurabh Verma , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M. S. Barak

Observational constraints on time-varying dark energy ({\it e.g.}, quintessence) are commonly presented on a $w_0$-$w_a$ plot that assumes the equation of state of dark energy strictly satisfies $w(z)= w_0+ w_a z/(1+z)$ as a function of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 David Shlivko , Paul Steinhardt

In this article we compare a variety of well known dynamical dark energy models using the cosmic microwave background measurements from the 2018 Planck legacy and 2015 Planck data releases, the baryon acoustic oscillations measurements and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-07 Weiqiang Yang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Supriya Pan , Yabo Wu , Jianbo Lu