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77 claims from 43 papers, showing 21–40 of 43

1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

   Collaboration, C., Acevedo et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Supernova data alone now require acceleration ($q_0<0$ in $Λ$CDM) with over $5σ$ confidence.”
   2. Unchecked“Including Planck CMB data, SDSS BAO data, and DES $3\times2$-point data gives $(Ω_{\rm M},w)=(0.321\pm0.007,-0.941\pm0.026)$.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Optimal parameterizations for observational constraints on thawing dark energy

   Shlivko, Steinhardt and Steinhardt · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find that a targeted parameterization derived from a Padé expansion of $w$ is the most reliable of these, producing accurate reconstructions of $w(z)$, the expansion history $H(z)$, and cosmological parameters such as $H_0$ and $Ω_m$ for a broad range of…

3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Is dynamical dark energy necessary? DESI BAO and modified recombination

   Mirpoorian, Jedamzik and Pogosian · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“A global fit to BAO, CMB, and calibrated SN data favors modified recombination over DDE.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Model-independent cosmological inference after the DESI DR2 data with improved inverse distance ladder

   Ling, Du, Li, Zhang, Wang and Zhang · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“For the DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets, we obtain $H_0 = 67.91 \pm 2.33~\mathrm{km~s^{-1}~Mpc^{-1}}$.”
   2. Unchecked“Finally, DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets provide nearly decisive evidence favoring the PAge model over the standard $Λ\mathrm{CDM}$ model.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Is curvature-assisted quintessence observationally viable?

   Alestas, Delgado, Ruiz, Akrami, Montero and Nesseris · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Here, we show, through a dynamical systems analysis and a Bayesian statistical inference of cosmological parameters, that the additional cosmological solutions based on the new fixed point do not render steep-potential, single-field, accelerated expansion ob…

6. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Reconstruction of dark energy and late-time cosmic expansion using the Weighted Function Regression method

   González-Fuentes and Gómez-Valent · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“The combined analysis of CMB, BAO, and SNIa data favors an effective DE component that transitions from phantom to quintessence behavior at redshift z cross ∼ 0.4.”
   2. Unchecked“The probability of phantom crossing lies between 96.21% and 99.97%, depending on the SNIa data set used, and hence a simple monotonic evolution of the DE density is excluded at the ∼ 2-4σ CL.”
   3. Unchecked“Moreover, applying Occam's razor, we find no significant evidence for a negative dark energy density below z ∼ 2.5-3.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Neutrino mass tension or suppressed growth rate of matter perturbations?

   Giarè, Mena, Specogna and Di Valentino · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We show that allowing $γ$ to vary significantly relaxes the neutrino mass bounds to $\sum m_ν\lesssim 0.13$-$0.2$ eV, removing any tension with terrestrial constraints without altering the inferred value of $Ω_\mathrm{m}$.”
   2. Unchecked“However, this comes at the cost of departing from standard growth predictions: to have $\sum m_ν\gtrsim 0.06$ eV one needs $γ> 0.55$, and we find a consistent preference for $γ> 0.55$ at the level of $\sim 2σ$.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

   Calabrese, Hill, Jense et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find no statistically significant preference for a departure from the baseline $Λ$CDM model.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Extended Dark Energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements

   K., R., L. et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Even with the additional flexibility introduced by non-parametric approaches, such as binning and Gaussian Processes, we find that extending $Λ$CDM to include a two-parameter $w(z)$ is sufficient to capture the trends present in the data.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Beyond Two Parameters: Revisiting Dark Energy with the Latest Cosmic Probes

    Cheng, Pan and Di Valentino · The Astrophysical Journal · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“The results further show that $w_0 > -1$, while $w_m$ is negative, indicating a phantom-like behaviour at early times.”
    2. Unchecked“Interestingly, despite its larger parameter space, the proposed model shows a preference over the $Λ$CDM and $w_0w_a$CDM scenarios for certain combined datasets, according to both $Δχ^2$ and Bayesian evidence, although this preference is not strong.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Revisiting the phenomenologically emergent dark energy model: is non-zero equation of state of dark matter favored by DESI DR2?

    Li, Zhang, Yao et al. · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“These analyses illustrate that it is not possible to both support a non-cold dark matter component within the PEDE model and alleviate the Hubble tension simultaneously.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Dynamical Dark Energy and the Unresolved Hubble Tension: Multi-model Constraints from DESI 2025 and Other Probes

    Zhang, Xu and Chen · The Astrophysical Journal · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“Second, we find compelling evidence for dynamical dark energy: early-universe (CMB) constraints favor a phantom phase (with an equation-of-state parameter $w < -1$), while late-universe (BAO/SNIa) data prefer quintessence ($w > -1$).”
    2. Unchecked“Third, the full dataset suggests a late-time interaction between dark energy and matter.”
    3. Unchecked“First, the Hubble constant ($H_0$) inferred from the combined data consistently aligns with early-universe measurements across all models, indicating a persistent Hubble tension.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Revisiting CPL with sign-switching density: To cross or not to cross the NECB

    Gökçen, Akarsu and Di Valentino · Physics of the Dark Universe · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“We find that late-time BAO and SNeIa data drive the negative-density phase beyond their effective redshift coverage, and that this requirement is the primary driver of the inferred parameter behavior.”
    2. Unchecked“While both models are statistically disfavored relative to the baseline CPL, admitting a negative DE phase generally reduces the significance of deviations from a cosmological constant.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Intertwined constraints in extended cosmologies: Dark energy, curvature, neutrinos, and inflation

    Giarè, Lee and Di Valentino · New Astronomy Reviews · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“None of the extensions considered here can resolve the $H_0$ tension.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Evolving Dark Energy or Supernovae Systematics?

    Efstathiou · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“A comparison of SN common to both the DES5Y and Pantheon+ compilations shows evidence for an offset of ~0.04 mag. between low and high redshifts.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Investigating Late-Time Dark Energy and Massive Neutrinos in Light of DESI Y1 BAO

    Rebouças, de Souza, Zhong, Miranda and Rosenfeld · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Constraints on the neutrino mass sum assuming dynamical dark energy are relaxed compared to $Λ$CDM and we show that these constraints are tighter in the model-agnostic case relative to $w_0w_a$ model by $70\%-90\%$.”
    2. Unchecked“We find that the combination of DESI BAO with Planck 2018 CMB data and SN data from Pantheon, Pantheon+, or Union3 is consistent with an oscillatory dark energy equation of state, while a monotonic behavior is preferred by the DESY5 SN data.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    DESI 2024 VI: cosmological constraints from the measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations

    Adame, Aguilar, Ahlen et al. · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In models with a time-varying dark energy equation of state parametrized by $w_0$ and $w_a$, combinations of DESI with CMB or with SN~Ia individually prefer $w_0>-1$ and $w_a<0$.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

    Collaboration, Shadab, Marie et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The RSD measurements indicate a growth rate that is consistent with predictions from Planck primary data and with General Relativity.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Planck 2018 results

    Aghanim, Akrami, Ashdown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“A combined analysis gives dark matter density Ω c h 2 = 0.120 ± 0.001, baryon density Ω b h 2 = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, scalar spectral index n s = 0.965 ± 0.004, and optical depth τ = 0.054 ± 0.007 (in this abstract we quote 68% confidence regions on measured para…
    2. Unchecked“Combining with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements (and considering single-parameter extensions) we constrain the effective extra relativistic degrees of freedom to be N eff = 2.99 ± 0.17, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction N eff = 3.…

20. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Multifield dark energy: Interplay between curved field space and curved spacetime

    Gallego and Orjuela-Quintana · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“However, we show that these mechanisms arise in distinct invariant manifolds and cannot be simultaneously realized in the presence of a background fluid: no non-geodesic scaling fixed point exists within an open region of parameter space.”
    2. Unchecked“As a consequence, in the observationally viable thawing regime the axion does not track the background fluid and spatial curvature becomes dynamically subdominant, leading to an effectively single-field evolution.”