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196 claims from 111 papers, showing 61–80 of 111

1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Cosmological constraints on dark energy models using DESI BAO 2024

   Zheng, Qiang and You · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Our findings indicate that in these parameterizations, the deviation from ($w_0$,$w_{1}$)=(-1,0) becomes more pronounced when using the combined data from DESI BAO, SNe Ia, and QSO compilations.”

2. 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 $(Ω_{\rm M},w)=(0.321\pm0.007,-0.941\pm0.026)$.”

3. 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…

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   OSSOS. XV. Probing the Distant Solar System with Observed Scattering TNOs

   Kaib, Pike, Lawler et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Although the number of highly inclined scatterers from the Oort Cloud is ~3 times less than observed, Oort cloud enrichment from the Sun's galactic migration or birth cluster could resolve this.”
   2. Unchecked“Meanwhile, a distant, low-eccentricity 5 Earth-mass planet replicates the observed fraction of highly inclined scatterers, but the overall inclination distribution is more excited than observed.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Bombardment History of the Giant Planet Satellites

   Bottke, Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný et al. · The Planetary Science Journal · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Iapetus, Hyperion, Phoebe, and Oberon have surface ages that are a few Myr to a few tens of Myr younger than when Neptune entered the PKB (i.e., they are 4.52–4.53 Gyr old).”
   2. Unchecked“A much wider range of surface ages are found for the large moons Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, and Europa (4.1, 3.4, 1.8, and 0.18 Gyr old, respectively).”

6. 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.”

7. 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.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey - Full Data Release: The orbital structure of the Kuiper belt

   Petit, Kavelaars, Gladman et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“The main classical belt (a=40--47 AU) needs to be modeled with at least three components: the `hot' component with a wide inclination distribution and two `cold' components (stirred and kernel) with much narrower inclination distributions.”
   2. Unchecked“The hot component must have a significantly shallower absolute magnitude (Hg) distribution than the other two components.”

9. 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…

10. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Is There an Earth-like Planet in the Distant Kuiper Belt?

    Lykawka and Itô · The Astronomical Journal · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We determined that an Earth-like planet (m ~ 1.5-3 Earth masses) located on a distant (semimajor axis a ~ 250-500 au, perihelion q ~ 200 au) and inclined (i ~ 30 deg) orbit can explain three fundamental properties of the distant Kuiper Belt: a prominent popu…
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, the proposed KBP is compatible with the existence of identified Gyr-stable TNOs in the 2:1, 5:2, 3:1, 4:1, 5:1, and 6:1 Neptunian mean motion resonances.”

11. 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.”

12. 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 $\sim 2σ$.”

13. 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.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Oort cloud Ecology

    Zwart, Torres, Cai and Brown · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Planet migration or chaotic orbital reorganization occurring while the Solar System is still a cluster member is, according to our model, inconsistent with the presence of the Oort cloud.”

15. 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.”

16. 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.”

17. 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.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Stability of Neptune’s Distant Resonances in the Presence of Planet Nine

    Clement and Sheppard · The Astronomical Journal · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Finally, we simulate the evolution of observed objects with a > 100 au and identify several TNOs that are potentially locked in n:1 resonances with Neptune; including the most distant known resonant candidates 2014 JW80 and 2014 OS394 that appear to be in th…

19. 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.”

20. 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.”