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The dark energy crossing of the cosmological constant boundary (the transition between the quintessence and phantom regimes) is described in terms of the implicitly defined dark energy equation of state. The generalizations of the models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hrvoje Stefancic

Recent determinations of the equation of state of dark energy hint that this may well be of the phantom type, i.e., $w_{de} < -1$. If confirmed by future experiments, this would strongly point to the existence of fields that violate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Rafael C. Nunes , Diego Pavón

Quintessence scalar fields are a natural candidate for evolving dark energy. Unlike the phenomenological $w_0w_a$ parameterization of the dark energy equation of state, they cannot accommodate the phantom regime of dark energy $w(z) < -1$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Kim V. Berghaus , Joshua A. Kable , Vivian Miranda

By introducing Crossing functions and hyper-parameters I show that the Bayesian interpretation of the Crossing Statistics [1] can be used trivially for the purpose of model selection among cosmological models. In this approach to falsify a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-24 Arman Shafieloo

In the standard cosmological framework of the 0th-order FLRW metric and the use of perfect fluids in the stress-energy tensor, dark energy with an equation-of-state parameter $w < -1$ (known as phantom dark energy) implies negative kinetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-07 Kevin J. Ludwick

One of the main challenges of modern cosmology is to investigate the nature of dark energy in our Universe. The properties of such a component are normally summarised as a perfect fluid with a (potentially) time-dependent equation-of-state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-19 J. Alberto Vazquez , M. Bridges , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby

There is mounting evidence from multiple cosmological probes that dark energy may be dynamical, with an equation of state that evolves over cosmic time. While this evidence is typically quantified using the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Daniel A. Kessler , Luis A. Escamilla , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino

DES-5Y supernovae, combined with DESI BAO, appear to favour Chevallier-Polarski-Linder $(w_0, w_a)$ dynamical dark energy over $\Lambda$CDM. arXiv:2408.07175 suggested that this is driven by a systematic in the DES pipeline, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 A. N. Ormondroyd , W. J. Handley , M. P. Hobson , A. N. Lasenby , D. Yallup

This paper introduces the class of omnipotent dark energy (DE) models characterized by nonmonotonic energy densities that are capable of attaining negative values with corresponding equation of state parameters featuring phantom divide line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shahnawaz A. Adil , Ozgur Akarsu , Eleonora Di Valentino , Rafael C. Nunes , Emre Ozulker , Anjan A. Sen , Enrico Specogna

We report the constraints on the dark energy equation-of-state w(z) using the latest 'Constitution' SNe sample combined with the WMAP5 and SDSS data. Based on the localized principal component analysis and the model selection criteria, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Gong-Bo Zhao , Xinmin Zhang

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

We show that a Universe with a nonminimally coupled scalar field can fit current measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe better than the standard $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model or other minimally coupled dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 William J. Wolf , Pedro G. Ferreira , Carlos García-García

We show that a simple coupling between dark energy and dark matter can simultaneously address two distinct hints at new physics coming from cosmological observations. The first is the recent evidence from the DESI project and supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Justin Khoury , Meng-Xiang Lin , Mark Trodden

Observations from DESI DR2 are challenging the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm by suggesting that the equation-of-state parameter of dark energy evolves across $w = -1$, a phenomenon known as the Quintom scenario. Inspired by this development, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yifu Cai , Xin Ren , Taotao Qiu , Mingzhe Li , Xinmin Zhang

Recent cosmological measurements are hinting that dark energy may evolve, with its equation of state, $w_\mathrm{DE}$, even showing oscillatory patterns. In this work, we employ a model-independent approach to jointly reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Pietro Ghedini , Rasmi Hajjar , Olga Mena

We survey the application of specific tools to distinguish amongst the wide variety of dark energy models that are nowadays under investigation. The first class of tools is more mathematical in character: the application of the theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-05 Genly Leon , Yoelsy Leyva , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Osmel Martin , Rolando Cardenas

Consistency relations between growth of structure and expansion history observables exist for any physical explanation of cosmic acceleration, be it a cosmological constant, scalar field quintessence, or a general component of dark energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Michael J. Mortonson , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer

We confront the concordance (standard) model of cosmology, the spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM Universe with power-law form of the primordial spectrum with Planck CMB angular power spectrum data searching for possible smooth deviations beyond…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-30 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo

We present a Bayesian comparative analysis of five cosmological models: $\Lambda$CDM, $w$CDM, $w_0w_a$CDM, $\phi$CDM (with scalar-field dark energy), and an interacting dark energy scenario (the $\xi$-index model), to investigate dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Zhuoming Zhang , Tengpeng Xu , Yun Chen

We investigate a generalized power-law dark energy equation of state of the form $p = w\rho - \beta\rho^m$ in a flat FLRW universe, analyzing its dynamical stability and thermodynamic consistency. The model exhibits a rich phase space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 S. Kazemi , M. A. Ramzanpour , E. Yusofi , A. R. Amani