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Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) allow us to determine the expansion history of the Universe, thereby shedding light on the nature of dark energy. Recent observations of BAO's in the SDSS DR9 and DR11 have provided us with statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-25 Varun Sahni , Arman Shafieloo , Alexei A. Starobinsky

This study investigates the potential of a cosmological model termed $\Lambda w$DM, in which a cosmological constant play the role of dark energy and dark matter is barotropic and has a constant equation of state parameter ($w_{\rm dm}$),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Yan-Hong Yao , Jian-Qi Liu

The nature of dark matter is still mysterious despite various astronomical evidence. As a possible candidate, self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) can potentially resolve some issues appearing in cold dark matter paradigm. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Mu-Chun Chen , Yong Tang

In this work, we demonstrate that a dynamical dark energy component predicted by massive gravity gives rise to a distinctive evolution of the equation of state. This scenario is favoured over the standard $\Lambda$CDM model when confronted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Juri Smirnov

The evidence for the dark matter of the hot big bang cosmology is about as good as it gets in natural science. The exploration of its nature is now led by direct and indirect detection experiments, to be complemented by advances in the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 P. J. E. Peebles

Recently, there has been considerable debate regarding potential evidence for the dynamical nature of dark energy (DE), particularly in light of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) measurements released by DESI survey. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Mateus Scherer , Miguel A. Sabogal , Rafael C. Nunes , Antonio De Felice

From observations at low and high redshifts, it is well known that the bulk of dark matter (DM) has to be stable or at least very long-lived. However, the possibility that a small fraction of DM is unstable or that all DM decays with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Jozef Bucko , Sambit K. Giri , Aurel Schneider

Dynamical dark matter (DDM) is an alternative framework for dark-matter physics in which the dark-matter candidate is an ensemble of constituent fields with differing masses, lifetimes, and cosmological abundances. In this framework, it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Keith R. Dienes , Jason Kumar , Brooks Thomas

The true nature of dark energy remains unclear: It is either a strange fluid in the Universe, with a negative effective pressure, or a breakdown in General Relativity on large scales. This question can only be answered through a suite of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Nichol

Prompted by the recent more precise determination of the basic cosmological parameters and growing evidence that the matter-energy content of the universe is now dominated by dark energy and dark matter we present the general solution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Marek Demianski , Zdzislaw A. Golda , Andrzej Woszczyna

We study some properties of the dark degeneracy, which is the fact that what we measure in gravitational experiments is the energy momentum tensor of the total dark sector, and any split into components (as in dark matter and dark energy)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Alejandro Aviles , Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota

The accelerating expansion of the universe is the most surprising cosmological discovery in many decades, implying that the universe is dominated by some form of "dark energy" with exotic physical properties, or that Einstein's theory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 David H. Weinberg , Michael J. Mortonson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Christopher Hirata , Adam G. Riess , Eduardo Rozo

I briefly review our current understanding of dark matter and dark energy. The first part of this paper focusses on issues pertaining to dark matter including observational evidence for its existence, current constraints and the `abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-19 Varun Sahni

The concordance Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) model for the formation of structure in the Universe, while remarkably successful at describing observations of structure on large scales, continues to be challenged by observations on…

Exotic dark matter (EDM) refers to a dark matter species whose equation of state deviates from zero at late times. This behavior enables it to model a variety of non-standard late-time cosmologies, offering alternatives to various dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Matteo Braglia , Xingang Chen , Abraham Loeb

We present observational constraints on the Bound Dark Energy Cold Dark Matter (BDE-CDM) model using DESI DR2 baryon acoustic oscillation measurements combined with Planck CMB data and Type Ia supernovae compilations (PantheonPlus, Union3,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Axel de la Macorra , Jose Agustin Lozano Torres

We address three genuine phantom dark energy models where each of them induces the particular future events known as Big Rip, Little Rip and Little Sibling of the Big Rip. The background models are fully determined by a given dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-22 Amine Bouali , Imanol Albarran , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Taoufik Ouali

We demonstrate that the constraints on the evolution of dark energy implemented by the DESI collaboration may be insufficient or incomplete using their own BAO data. Using large enough prior ranges for the present-day equation of state of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Deng Wang

We investigate the model of dark matter-dark energy (DM-DE) interaction with coupling strength proportional to the multiplication of dark sector densities with different power indices $Q = \gamma \rho_{\rm c}^{\alpha} \rho_{\rm d}^{\beta}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Gong Cheng , Yin-Zhe Ma , Fengquan Wu , Jiajun Zhang , Xuelei Chen

Recent cosmological measurements favour additional relativistic energy density beyond the one provided by the three active neutrinos and photons of the Standard Model (SM). This is often referred to as "dark radiation", suggesting the need…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , V. Niro , Jordi Salvado