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We propose a non-parametric method of smoothing supernova data over redshift using a Gaussian kernel in order to reconstruct important cosmological quantities including H(z) and w(z) in a model independent manner. This method is shown to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 Arman Shafieloo , Ujjaini Alam , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Recent measurements suggest our universe has a substantial dark energy component, which is usually interpreted in terms of a cosmological constant. Here we examine how much the form of this dark energy can be modified while still retaining…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Duane A. Dicus , Wayne W. Repko

Recent observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI 2025) indicate a weakening of cosmic acceleration at low redshifts $z < 1$, with effective dark energy equation of state parameters $w_0 > -1$ and $w_a < 0$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 John W. Moffat

Despite the many efforts, our theoretical understanding of the ultimate nature of the dark energy component of the universe still lags well behind the astounding experimental evidence achieved from the increasingly sophisticated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Adria Gomez-Valent , Joan Sola , Spyros Basilakos

For a large class of dark energy (DE) models, for which the effective gravitational constant is a constant and there is no direct exchange of energy between DE and dark matter (DM), knowledge of the expansion history suffices to reconstruct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Ujjaini Alam , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We provide a model-independent reconstruction of dark energy from $z=0$ to $ \gtrsim 10^5$. We parameterise the model by a perfect fluid with a series of physically well-motivated bins in energy-density, such that the equation of state is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-01 Adam Moss , Edmund Copeland , Steven Bamford , Thomas Clarke

Several independent cosmological data, collected within the last twenty years, revealed the accelerated expansion rate of the Universe, usually assumed to be driven by the so called dark energy, which, according to recent estimates,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-16 Marek Demianski , Elisabeta Lusso , Maurizio Paolillo , Ester Piedipalumbo , Guido Risaliti

Hubble constant tension, together with the recent indications of dynamical dark energy proposed from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements, poses significant challenges to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yi-Ying Wang , Yin-Jie Li , Yi-Zhong Fan

The cosmological constant and many other possible origins for acceleration of the cosmic expansion possess variations in the dark energy properties slow on the Hubble time scale. Given that models with more rapid variation, or even phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-21 Eric V. Linder

An important issue in cosmology is reconstructing the effective dark energy equation of state directly from observations. With few physically motivated models, future dark energy studies cannot only be based on constraining a dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Marina Seikel , Chris Clarkson , Mathew Smith

We propose a new approach to the consistency test of dark energy models with observations. To test a category of dark energy models, we suggest introducing a characteristic Q(z) that in general varies with the redshift z but in those models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-25 Je-An Gu , Chien-Wen Chen , Pisin Chen

Exploring the recent expansion history of the universe promises insights into the cosmological model, the nature of dark energy, and potentially clues to high energy physics theories and gravitation. We examine the extent to which precision…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-19 Eric V. Linder

Observational evidence indicating that the expansion of the universe is accelerating has surprised cosmologists in recent years. Cosmological models have sought to explain this acceleration by incorporating `dark energy', of which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 Luke Barnes , Matthew J. Francis , Geraint F. Lewis , Eric V. Linder

Many ambitious experiments have been proposed to constrain dark energy and detect its evolution. At present, observational constraints are consistent with a cosmological constant and there is no firm evidence for any evolution in the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 Sirichai Chongchitnan , George Efstathiou

We consider a model-independent approach to constrain the equivalence redshift, $z_{eq}$, at which dark energy and the total matter (cold dark matter and baryonic) equate their magnitudes. To this aim, in the context of a homogeneous and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Anna Chiara Alfano , Carlo Cafaro , Salvatore Capozziello , Orlando Luongo

We reconstruct evolution of the dark energy (DE) density using a nonparametric Bayesian approach from a combination of latest observational data. We caution against parameterizing DE in terms of its equation of state as it can be singular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Yuting Wang , Levon Pogosian , Gong-Bo Zhao , Alex Zucca

A comparative study of various parametrizations of the dark energy equation of state $w(z)$ and its variation with the redshift is made. Astrophysical constraints from 'integrated tracking' are laid down to test the physical viability and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vinod B. Johri

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

Understanding the physical nature of the dark energy which appears to drive the accelerated expansion of the unvierse is one of the key problems in physics and cosmology today. This important problem is best studied using a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ruth A. Daly , S. G. Djorgovski

Dark energy is now one of the most important and topical problems in cosmology. The first step to reveal its nature is to detect the evolution of dark energy or to prove beyond doubt that the cosmological constant is indeed constant.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-21 Krzysztof Bolejko