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Cosmic microwave background anisotropies encode crucial information about the early Universe and fundamental cosmological physics. Although the standard $\Lambda$CDM model provides a successful description of cosmic evolution, persistent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yang Han , Lu Chen , Guo-Hao Li , Pei-Yuan Xu

Recent baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) are mildly discrepant ($2.2\sigma$) with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) when interpreted within $\Lambda$CDM. When analyzing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Noah Sailer , Gerrit S. Farren , Simone Ferraro , Martin White

The `cosmic calibration tension' is a $> 5\sigma$ discrepancy between the cosmological distance ladder built from baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) calibrated by the Planck/$\Lambda$CDM sound horizon ($r_s$) and Type Ia supernovae (SN1a)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Vivian Poulin , Tristan L. Smith , Rodrigo Calderón , Théo Simon

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

Recently, BICEP2 collaboration has released their results on the measurements of the CMB polarizations. In the framework of the $\Lambda$CDM with a power law form of the scalar primordial power spectrum, this new measurement on the B-mode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Xinmin Zhang

In this letter we argue that the CPL parameterisation for the dark energy equation of state is biased towards preferring such model over the constant $w$ while the latter bounds are still compatible with LCDM. For that we compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Ziad Sakr

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

We present an updated data-analysis comparison of the most recent observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature anisotropies and polarization angular power spectra released by four different experiments: the Planck satellite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Eleonora Di Valentino , William Giarè , Alessandro Melchiorri , Joseph Silk

Late-time power law expansion has been proposed as an alternative to the standard cosmological model and shown to be consistent with some low-redshift data. We test power law expansion against the standard flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-10 Daniel L. Shafer

Motivated by the recent Year-2 data release of the DESI collaboration, we update our results on time-varying dark energy models driven by the Cohen-Kaplan-Nelson bound. The previously found preference of time-dependent dark energy models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Patrick Adolf , Martin Hirsch , Sara Krieg , Heinrich Päs , Mustafa Tabet

Hubble constant $H_0$ and weighted amplitude of matter fluctuations $S_8$ determinations are biased to higher and lower values, respectively, in the late Universe with respect to early Universe values inferred by the Planck collaboration…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Shahnawaz A. Adil , Özgür Akarsu , Mohammad Malekjani , Eoin Ó Colgáin , Saeed Pourojaghi , Anjan A. Sen , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

Magnitude predictions of $\Lambda$CDM, as parametrized by the Planck collaboration, are not consistent with the supernova data of the whole Pantheon+ sample even when, in order to take into account the uncertainty about its value, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Yves-Henri Sanejouand

Models of a dark radiation sector with a mass threshold (WZDR+) have proved to be an appealing alternative to $\Lambda$CDM. These models provide simple comparison models, grounded in well-understood particle physics and with limited…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-12 Zilu Zhou , Neal Weiner

Recent studies by Sol\`a Peracaula, G\'omez-Valent, de Cruz P\'erez and Moreno-Pulido (2019,2020) have pointed out the intriguing possibility that Brans-Dicke cosmology with constant vacuum energy density (BD-$\Lambda$CDM) may be able to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Adrià Gómez-Valent , Prajwal Hassan Puttasiddappa

Axion-like early dark energy (EDE) as an extension to $\Lambda$CDM has been proposed as a possible solution to the 'Hubble tension'. We revisit this model using a new cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 George Efstathiou , Erik Rosenberg , Vivian Poulin

Observations of the cosmic microwave backgroundradiation are described to remarkable accuracy by the six-parameterLambda CDM cosmology. However, the key ingredients of this model, namely dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation are not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 George Efstathiou

In this study, we investigate the $w$CDM dynamical dark energy model with spatial curvature utilizing the recently released DESI Collaboration data (DR1 and DR2) in conjunction with other observational probes such as BBN, Observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Manish Yadav , Archana Dixit , M. S. Barak , Anirudh Pradhan

The current cosmological paradigm, $\Lambda$CDM, is characterized its expansive description of the history of the Universe, its deep connections to particle physics and the large amounts of data that support it. Nonetheless, $\Lambda$CDM's…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Michael S. Turner

Recent results from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), in combination with cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements, have focused renewed attention on dark energy models with a time-varying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Anowar J. Shajib , Joshua A. Frieman

We present constraints on extensions to the flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model by varying the spatial curvature $\Omega_K$, the sum of the neutrino masses $\sum m_\nu$, the dark energy equation of state parameter $w$, and the Hu-Sawicki…