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With Planck CMB, lensing and non-CMB data combined, w0waCDM (with or without varying A_L) is positively favoured over flat ΛCDM, and adding A_L is favoured over w0waCDM.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Our P18+lensing+non-CMB data compilation positively favors the $w_0w_a$CDM parameterization without and with a varying $A_L$ parameter over the flat $Λ$CDM model, and $w_0w_a$CDM+$A_L$ is also positively favored over $w_0w_a$CDM.”
From Park et al. (2025), arXiv 2410.13627. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 11 Oct 2026.
w0waCDM:
A cosmological model in which dark energy's equation of state changes with redshift as w(z) = w0 + wa z/(1+z), instead of staying constant.
A_L:
A parameter that rescales the amount of gravitational lensing smoothing in the CMB power spectra; A_L = 1 is the standard prediction.
flat ΛCDM:
The standard cosmological model with a spatially flat universe, cold dark matter and a cosmological constant as dark energy.
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The paper
Is the w0waCDM cosmological parameterization evidence for dark energy dynamics partially caused by the excess smoothing of Planck CMB anisotropy data?
Chan‐Gyung Park, Javier de Cruz Pérez and Bharat Ratra
International Journal of Modern Physics D · published 2025 · arXiv 2410.13627
The authors test a dynamical dark energy model, with and without a CMB lensing parameter A_L, against Planck and non-CMB data, and ask whether excess smoothing in Planck data partly drives the evidence for dark energy dynamics.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 11 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
The claim is a model comparison: the data set is said to prefer the more flexible models over the standard flat ΛCDM model, which has a constant dark energy density. It also says that letting A_L vary improves on w0waCDM alone. In the paper's context, this bears on whether apparent evidence for evolving dark energy is partly an artefact of the extra smoothing seen in Planck CMB data.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 11 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
They fitted the spatially flat w0waCDM model, with and without a varying lensing consistency parameter A_L, to Planck 2018 CMB and lensing data plus non-CMB data (BAO without DESI, Pantheon+ supernovae, H(z) and growth data).
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What they found
For w0waCDM+A_L the fit gives w0 = -0.879 ± 0.060, wa = -0.39 (+0.26, -0.22) and A_L = 1.078 (+0.036, -0.040), favouring dark energy dynamics at about 1σ and A_L > 1 at about 2σ.
For w0waCDM with A_L = 1, evidence for dark energy dynamics is larger, about 2σ, suggesting part of it comes from excess smoothing in Planck CMB data.
With A_L = 1, the tension between Planck and non-CMB constraints is 2.8σ (P18) and 2.7σ (P18+lensing); letting A_L vary reduces these to 1.9σ and 2.1σ.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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⬜ No verified replication test yet on Ecdysis, as registered (credence 55%): "Our P18+lensing+non-CMB data compilation positively favors the $w_0w_a$CDM parameterization without and with a varying…"
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"Our P18+lensing+non-CMB data compilation positively favors the $w_0w_a$CDM parameterization without and with a varying $A_L$ parameter over the flat $Λ$CDM model, and $w_0w_a$CDM+$A_L$ is also positively favored over $w_0w_a$CDM."
(Park et al., International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2025)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): With Planck CMB, lensing and non-CMB data combined, w0waCDM (with or without varying A_L) is positively favoured over flat ΛCDM, and adding A_L is favoured over w0waCDM.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if, using the exact P18+lensing+non‑CMB dataset and identical priors as reported in the paper, the Bayesian log‑evidence for either flat ΛCDM or w0waCDM exceeds that of w0waCDM+AL by at least 1.0 ln unit (i.e., Δln Z ≥ +1).
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It states the method the paper reports: “using the exact P18+lensing+non-CMB dataset and identical priors as reported in the paper”.
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General, by construction: “spatially-flat dynamical dark energy (DE) $w_0w_a$CDM parameterization, with redshift-dependent DE fluid equation of state parameter $w(z)=w_0+w_a z/(1+z)$, and the variant with a varying CMB lensing consistency parameter $A_L$”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Chan‐Gyung Park, Javier de Cruz Pérez and Bharat Ratra (2025), Is the w0waCDM cosmological parameterization evidence for dark energy dynamics partially caused by the excess smoothing of Planck CMB anisotropy data?, International Journal of Modern Physics D. Ecdysis, claim ext:aa300fda42f4e965. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:aa300fda42f4e965
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