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We study dynamical dark energy models that allow for general late time behaviour while admitting non-phantom dynamics at early times, including thawing, scaling$+$thawing, and effective fluid extensions. Using current cosmological data, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Sk. Sohail , Sonej Alam , Md. Wali Hossain

In the last decades, a cosmological model that fits observations through a vast range of scales emerged. It goes under the name of ${\Lambda}$CDM. However, there are still challenging questions that remain unanswered by this model, such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-25 Michele Mancarella

Despite the great progress of current cosmological measurements, the nature of the dominant component of the universe, coined dark energy, is still an open question. Early Dark Energy is a possible candidate which may also alleviate some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-07 Maria Archidiacono , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena

In this work, we study tracker phantom dark energy models with a general parameterization of the scalar potentials. Our analysis also considers the scenario of having both phantom field and the cosmological constant as the dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 Francisco X. Linares Cedeño , Nandan Roy , L. Arturo Ureña-López

The $\Lambda$CDM model is a remarkably successful model which is consistent with the observations of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO), and large scale structure of the Universe. However, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-29 Jiro Matsumoto

Physics invites the idea that space contains energy whose gravitational effect approximates that of Einstein's cosmological constant, Lambda; nowadays the concept is termed dark energy or quintessence. Physics also suggests the dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. J. E. Peebles , Bharat Ratra

One of the main aims in the next generation of precision cosmology experiments will be an accurate determination of the equation of state (EOS) for the dark energy (DE). If the latter is dynamical, the resulting barotropic index \omega…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joan Sola , Hrvoje Stefancic

In this work, we consider a network of cosmic strings to explain possible deviation from \Lambda CDM behaviour. We use different observational data to constrain the model and show that a small but non zero contribution from the string…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sumit Kumar , Akhilesh Nautiyal , Anjan A. Sen

Motivated in part by string theory, we consider a modification of the LambdaCDM cosmological model in which the dark matter has a long-range scalar force screened by light particles. Scalar forces can have interesting effects on structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven S. Gubser , P. J. E. Peebles

We discuss necessary conditions for a network of cosmic domain walls to have a chance of providing the dark energy that might explain the recent acceleration of the universe. We derive a strong bound on the curvature of the walls, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. P. Avelino , C. J. A. P. Martins , J. Menezes , R. Menezes , J. C. R. E. Oliveira

Among the possible alternatives to the standard cosmological model ($\Lambda$CDM), coupled Dark Energy models postulate that Dark Energy (DE), seen as a dynamical scalar field, may interact with Dark Matter (DM), giving rise to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Fabio Fontanot , Marco Baldi , Volker Springel , Davide Bianchi

A simple speed-up cosmology model is proposed to account for the dark energy puzzle. We condense contributions from dark energy and curvature term into one effective parameter in order to reduce parameter degeneracies and to find any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-10 Xin-He Meng , Meng Su , Zheng Wang

We investigate the dark energy phenomenology in an extended parameter space where we allow the curvature density of our universe as a free-to-vary parameter. The inclusion of the curvature density parameter is motivated from the recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-29 Mehdi Rezaei , Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang , David F. Mota

Following the holographic principle, which suggests that the energy density of dark energy may be proportional inversely to the area of the event horizon of the Universe, we have proposed a new energy density of dark energy through the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 H. R. Fazlollahi

Although $\Lambda$CDM model is very successful in many aspects, it has been seriously challenged. Recently, warm dark matter (WDM) remarkably rose as an alternative of cold dark matter (CDM). In the literature, many attempts have been made…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Hao Wei , Zu-Cheng Chen , Jing Liu

We derive multiple constraints on dark energy and compare dynamical dark energy models with a time-varying equation of state ($w_0 w_a$CDM) versus a cosmological constant model ($\Lambda$CDM). We use Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Mustapha Ishak , Leonel Medina-Varela

The Standard Model of cosmology, $\Lambda$CDM, while enormously successful, is currently unable to account for several cosmological anomalies the most prominent of which are in the measurements of the Hubble parameter and $S_8$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Amin Aboubrahim , Pran Nath

By assuming a phenomenological form for the ratio of the DE and DM densities $\rho_X\propto \rho_{m} a^{\xi}$ (Dalal et al.2001), we discuss the cosmic coincidence problem in light of current observational data. $\xi$ is a key parameter to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-11 Yun Chen , Zong-Hong Zhu , J. S. Alcaniz , Yungui Gong

We show that the assumption of a flat universe induces critically large errors in reconstructing the dark energy equation of state at z>~0.9 even if the true cosmic curvature is very small, O(1%) or less. The spuriously reconstructed w(z)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chris Clarkson , Marina Cortes , Bruce A. Bassett

A type of exponential correction to General Relativity gives viable modified gravity model of dark energy. The model behaves as $R-2\Lambda$ at large curvature where an effective cosmological constant appears, but it becomes zero in flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-13 L. N. Granda