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To explain the acceleration of the cosmological expansion researchers have considered an unusual form of mass-energy generically called dark energy. Dark energy has a ratio of pressure over mass density which obeys $w=p/\rho <-1/3$. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-19 Max Chaves , Douglas Singleton

We suggest that the current acceleration of the universe may be explained by the vacuum energy of a hidden sector which is stuck in a state of equilibrium between phases. The phases are associated to a late-time first-order phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ariel Megevand

The formalism of dark energy based on modeling speed of sound as a function of equation of state parameter is elaborated. A specific model which allows detailed study of cosmological constant boundary crossing is introduced and analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Dalibor Perkovic , Hrvoje Stefancic

String theory naturally leads to the expectation that dark energy is not stable, and may be evolving as captured by the Swampland de Sitter conjectures. Moreover, motivated by the distance conjecture, a unification of dark sector has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Alek Bedroya , Georges Obied , Cumrun Vafa , David H. Wu

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) second data release shows a moderate preference for dark energy with a time-varying equation of state parameter, suggesting that the standard $\Lambda$CDM model may need to be revised. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Zachary J. Hoelscher , Thomas W. Kephart , Robert J. Scherrer , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

The presence of dark energy in the Universe is inferred directly and indirectly from a large body of observational evidence. The simplest and most theoretically appealing possibility is the vacuum energy density (cosmological constant).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. S. Alcaniz

Astronomical measurements of the Omegas for mass density, cosmological constant lambda and curvature k are shown to be sufficient to produce a unique and detailed cosmological model describing dark energy influences based on the Friedman…

General Physics · Physics 2010-01-14 James G. Gilson

Cosmology at present provides the nominally strongest constraint on the masses of standard model neutrinos. However, this constraint extremely dependent on the nature of the dark energy component of the Universe. When the dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steen Hannestad

Power-law cosmology with scale factor as power of cosmic time, $a \propto t^{\a}$, is investigated. We review and discuss value of $\a$ obtained from various types of observation. Considering dark energy dominant era in late universe from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-30 Burin Gumjudpai

One of the most important questions nowadays in physics concerns the nature of the so-called dark energy. It is also a consensus among cosmologists that such a question will not be answered on the basis only of observational data. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Deepak Jain , J. S. Alcaniz , Abha Dev

Most parametrizations for dark energy involve the equation of state $w$ of the dark energy. In this work, we choose the pressure of the dark energy to parametrize. As $p = constant$ essentially gives a cosmological constant, we use the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Sen

Cosmology enters precision testing period with the observational experiments advancement. We have not arrived to decipher the origin of the dominant dark energy component of our universe, although we have located some of its characters. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomohiro Inagaki , Xinhe Meng , Tsukasa Murata

We use a variant of principal component analysis to investigate the possible temporal evolution of the dark energy equation of state, w(z). We constrain w(z) in multiple redshift bins, utilizing the most recent data from Type Ia supernovae,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Paolo Serra , Asantha Cooray , Daniel E. Holz , Alessandro Melchiorri , Stefania Pandolfi , Devdeep Sarkar

In this brief review, we examine the theoretical consistency and viability of phantom dark energy. Almost all data sets from cosmological probes are compatible with dark energy of the phantom variety (i.e., equation-of-state parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-26 Kevin J. Ludwick

Dark energy affects the CMB through its perturbations and affects both CMB and Sn-Ia through its background evolution. Using recent CMB and Sn-Ia data sets, together with the most general parameterization of the dark energy equation of…

We perform a cosmological parameter analysis of the 75 square degree CTIO lensing survey in conjunction with CMB and Type Ia supernovae data. For Lambda CDM cosmologies, we find that the amplitude of the power spectrum at low redshift is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mike Jarvis , Bhuvnesh Jain , Gary Bernstein , Derek Dolney

The two most popular candidates for dark energy, i.e. a cosmological constant and quintessence, are very difficult to distinguish observationally, mostly because the quintessence field does not have sizable fluctuations. We study a scalar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Massimo Pietroni

We consider the cosmological application of Lee-Wick theory where a field has a higher derivative kinetic operators. The higher derivative term can be eliminated by introducing a set of auxiliary fields. We investigate the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-08 Seokcheon Lee

Dark energy (DE) plays an important role in the expansion history of our universe. But we only got limited knowledge about its nature and properties after decades of study.In most numerical researches, DE is usually considered as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 Ke Wang , Lu Chen

One of the central challenges in modern cosmology is understanding the nature of dark energy and its evolution throughout the history of the Universe. Dark energy is commonly modeled as a perfect fluid with a time-varying equation-of-state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee