scholarly journals What do we really know about dark energy?

2011 ◽  
Vol 369 (1957) ◽  
pp. 5102-5114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Durrer
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmic Microwave Background ◽  
Hubble Parameter ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Distance Measurements ◽  
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
The One ◽  
Microwave Background Anisotropies

In this paper, we discuss what we truly know about dark energy. I shall argue that, to date, our single indication for the existence of dark energy comes from distance measurements and their relation to redshift. Supernovae, cosmic microwave background anisotropies and observations of baryon acoustic oscillations simply tell us that the observed distance to a given redshift z is larger than the one expected from a Friedmann–Lemaître universe with matter only and the locally measured Hubble parameter.

scholarly journals Can f(R) gravity relieve $$H_0$$ and $$\sigma _8$$ tensions?

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Microwave Background ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Cosmological Parameters ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Ia Supernovae

AbstractTo investigate whether f(R) gravity can relieve current $$H_0$$ H 0 and $$\sigma _8$$ σ 8 tensions, we constrain the Hu-Sawicki f(R) gravity with Planck-2018 cosmic microwave background and redshift space distortions observations. We find that this model fails to relieve both $$H_0$$ H 0 and $$\sigma _8$$ σ 8 tensions, and that its two typical parameters $$\log _{10}f_{R0}$$ log 10 f R 0 and n are insensitive to other cosmological parameters. Combining the cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillations, Type Ia supernovae, cosmic chronometers with redshift space distortions observations, we give our best constraint $$\log _{10}f_{R0}<-6.75$$ log 10 f R 0 < - 6.75 at the $$2\sigma $$ 2 σ confidence level.

scholarly journals KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Cosmology with cosmic shear

2020 ◽  
Vol 638 ◽  
pp. L1 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Joudaki ◽  
H. Hildebrandt ◽  
D. Traykova ◽  
N. E. Chisari ◽  
C. Heymans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Cosmic Microwave Background ◽  
Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Error Model ◽  
Calibration Error ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Weak Gravitational Lensing ◽  
Dark Energy Survey ◽  
Cosmic Shear ◽  
Energy Survey

We present a combined tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of the Kilo Degree Survey (KV450) and the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y1). We homogenize the analysis of these two public cosmic shear datasets by adopting consistent priors and modeling of nonlinear scales, and determine new redshift distributions for DES-Y1 based on deep public spectroscopic surveys. Adopting these revised redshifts results in a 0.8σ reduction in the DES-inferred value for S​8, which decreases to a 0.5σ reduction when including a systematic redshift calibration error model from mock DES data based on the MICE2 simulation. The combined KV450+DES-Y1 constraint on S8 = 0.762−0.024+0.025 is in tension with the Planck 2018 constraint from the cosmic microwave background at the level of 2.5σ. This result highlights the importance of developing methods to provide accurate redshift calibration for current and future weak-lensing surveys.

scholarly journals What's behind acoustic peaks in the cosmic microwave background anisotropies

2002 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 173-178
Author(s):  
C. Baccigalupi ◽  
A. Balbi ◽  
S. Matarrese ◽  
F. Perrotta ◽  
N. Vittorio
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Microwave Background ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Microwave Background Anisotropies
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