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Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation

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(Abridged) The WMAP 5-year data strongly limit deviations from the minimal LCDM model. We constrain the physics of inflation via Gaussianity, adiabaticity, the power spectrum shape, gravitational waves, and spatial curvature. We also constrain the properties of dark energy, parity-violation, and neutrinos. We detect no convincing deviations from the minimal model. The parameters of the LCDM model, derived from WMAP combined with the distance measurements from the Type Ia supernovae (SN) and the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), are: Omega_b=0.0456+-0.0015, Omega_c=0.228+-0.013, Omega_Lambda=0.726+-0.015, H_0=70.5+-1.3 km/s/Mpc, n_s=0.960+-0.013, tau=0.084+-0.016, and sigma_8=0.812+-0.026. With WMAP+BAO+SN, we find the tensor-to-scalar ratio r<0.22 (95% CL), and n_s>1 is disfavored regardless of r. We obtain tight, simultaneous limits on the (constant) equation of state of dark energy and curvature. We provide a set of "WMAP distance priors," to test a variety of dark energy models. We test a time-dependent w with a present value constrained as -0.33<1+w_0<0.21 (95% CL). Temperature and matter fluctuations obey the adiabatic relation to within 8.9% and 2.1% for the axion and curvaton-type dark matter, respectively. The TE and EB spectra constrain cosmic parity-violation. We find the limit on the total mass of neutrinos, sum(m_nu)<0.67 eV (95% CL), which is free from the uncertainty in the normalization of the large-scale structure data. The effective number of neutrino species is constrained as N_{eff} = 4.4+-1.5 (68%), consistent with the standard value of 3.04. Finally, limits on primordial non-Gaussianity are -9<f_{NL}^{local}<111 and -151<f_{NL}^{equil}<253 (95% CL) for the local and equilateral models, respectively.

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Self-Interaction of Super-Resonant Dark Matter

hep-ph · 2025-11-12 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Super-resonant dark matter at O(100) GeV masses amplifies self-scattering and annihilation cross sections via combined resonance and Sommerfeld effects, necessitating coupled Boltzmann equations to match observed relic density.

$\Lambda$CDM-like models with future singularities

gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Dark energy models with pressure defined as a function of scale factor match ΛCDM observations today but develop finite-time future singularities, including exact scalar field representations and calculated effects on matter perturbation growth.

Cosmological constraints on the big bang quantum cosmology model

astro-ph.CO · 2026-03-27 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

The JCDM model yields H0 of 66.95 plus or minus 0.51 km/s/Mpc and Omega_m of 0.3419 plus or minus 0.0065 in a flat universe, rising to H0 of 69.13 plus or minus 0.56 with slight positive curvature, fitting late-time data but struggling with full early-universe consistency.

The Quintom theory of dark energy after DESI DR2

astro-ph.CO · 2025-05-30 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

This review traces the history of dynamical dark energy, presents the no-go theorem against single-field crossing of w = -1, and surveys viable Quintom constructions including multi-field models and modified gravity in light of DESI DR2 hints.

Finite scale factor and future singularities

gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Dark energy models with pressure as a function of scale factor produce type I-IV finite-time future singularities that exhibit similar late-time behavior.

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  • Self-Interaction of Super-Resonant Dark Matter hep-ph · 2025-11-12 · unverdicted · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    Super-resonant dark matter at O(100) GeV masses amplifies self-scattering and annihilation cross sections via combined resonance and Sommerfeld effects, necessitating coupled Boltzmann equations to match observed relic density.

  • $\Lambda$CDM-like models with future singularities gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 5 · internal anchor

    Dark energy models with pressure defined as a function of scale factor match ΛCDM observations today but develop finite-time future singularities, including exact scalar field representations and calculated effects on matter perturbation growth.

  • Cosmological constraints on the big bang quantum cosmology model astro-ph.CO · 2026-03-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 81 · internal anchor

    The JCDM model yields H0 of 66.95 plus or minus 0.51 km/s/Mpc and Omega_m of 0.3419 plus or minus 0.0065 in a flat universe, rising to H0 of 69.13 plus or minus 0.56 with slight positive curvature, fitting late-time data but struggling with full early-universe consistency.

  • The Quintom theory of dark energy after DESI DR2 astro-ph.CO · 2025-05-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 69 · internal anchor

    This review traces the history of dynamical dark energy, presents the no-go theorem against single-field crossing of w = -1, and surveys viable Quintom constructions including multi-field models and modified gravity in light of DESI DR2 hints.

  • Finite scale factor and future singularities gr-qc · 2019-07-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 5 · internal anchor

    Dark energy models with pressure as a function of scale factor produce type I-IV finite-time future singularities that exhibit similar late-time behavior.