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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 $\Lambda$CDM framework offers a remarkably good description of our universe with a very small number of free parameters, which can be determined with high accuracy from currently available data. However, this does not mean that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 Yves Zolnierowski , Alain Blanchard

The recent data release DR2 from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has reinforced compelling evidence supporting the dynamical nature of dark energy. In this respect, we here explore a two-scalar field cosmological model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Tommaso Mengoni , Genly Leon , Orlando Luongo

We present a complete analysis of the observational constraints and cosmological implications of our Bound Dark Energy (BDE) model aimed to explain the late-time cosmic acceleration of the universe. BDE is derived from particle physics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Erick Almaraz , Axel de la Macorra

In the statistical framework of model-independent Gaussian processes (GP), we search for the evidence of dynamical dark energy (DDE) using the "Joint Light-curve Analysis" (JLA) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) sample, the 30 latest cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Deng Wang , Wei Zhang , Xin-He Meng

The new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR2 results have strengthened the possibility that dark energy is dynamical, i.e., it has evolved over the history of the Universe. One simple, but theoretically well motivated and widely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Yashar Akrami , George Alestas , Savvas Nesseris

We investigate an extended cosmological model motivated by the asymptotic safety of gravitational field theory, in which the matter and radiation densities and the cosmological constant receive a correction parametrized by the parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Li-Yang Gao , Ze-Wei Zhao , She-Sheng Xue , Xin Zhang

In generalized Proca theories, characterized by a vector field with broken $U(1)$ gauge invariance, late-time cosmic acceleration can be realized with a dark energy equation of state in the regime $w_{\rm DE} < -1$. In such scenarios,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shinji Tsujikawa

Recent analyses of the Planck data and quasars at high redshifts have suggested possible deviations from the flat $\Lambda$ cold dark matter model ($\Lambda$CDM), where $\Lambda$ is the cosmological constant. Here we use machine learning…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-23 Rubén Arjona , Savvas Nesseris

A model of unified dark matter and dark energy based on a Dynamical Spacetime Theory (DST) is studied. By introducing a Dynamical Spacetime vector field $\chi_\mu$, a conservation of an energy momentum tensor $T^{\mu\nu}_{(\chi)}$ emerges.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 David Benisty

A new bound dark energy, BDE, cosmology has been proposed where the dark energy is the binding energy between light meson fields that condense a few tens of years after the big bang. It is reported that the correct dark energy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Rodger I. Thompson

WWe investigate the current viability of a well-known coupled dark energy scenario in which cold dark matter (DM) interacts with a spin-0 dark energy component through a non-trivial field dependence of the DM mass. This ultra-light scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Adrià Gómez-Valent , Ziyang Zheng , Luca Amendola

The latest cosmological constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses depend on prior physical assumptions about the mass spectrum. To test the accordance of cosmological and laboratory constraints in the absence of such priors, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Willem Elbers , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Baojiu Li , Silvia Pascoli

Models proposing a non-gravitational interaction between dark energy (DE) and dark matter (CDM) have been extensively studied as alternatives to the standard cosmological model. A common approach to describing the DE-CDM coupling assumes it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jaelsson S. Lima , Rodrigo von Marttens , Luciano Casarini

It has been noted that with the pre-recombination early dark energy (EDE) resolution of Hubble tension, the preference of recent datasets for the evolving dark energy (DE) can be suppressed significantly. In this work, we clarify and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Hao Wang , Yun-Song Piao

Early data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered the existence of a surprisingly abundant population of very massive galaxies at extremely high redshift, which are hard to accommodate within the standard $\Lambda$CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shahnawaz A. Adil , Upala Mukhopadhyay , Anjan A. Sen , Sunny Vagnozzi

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

We develop a new phenomenological model that addresses current tensions between observations of the early and late Universe. Our scenario features: (i) a decaying dark energy fluid (DDE), which undergoes a transition at $z \sim 5,000$, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-20 Itamar J. Allali , Mark P. Hertzberg , Fabrizio Rompineve

Recent baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements released by DESI, when combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and type Ia supernova (SN) data, suggest a significant preference for dynamical dark energy (DDE) that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Sheng-Han Zhou , Yun-He Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In this study, we use a flexible parametrization of the equation of state of dark energy to explore its possible evolution with datasets from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), Planck cosmic microwave background, and either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ryan E. Keeley , Kevork N. Abazajian , Manoj Kaplinghat , Arman Shafieloo