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Can interacting dark energy solve the $H_0$ tension?
Olga MenaAlessandro MelchiorriEleonora Di ValentinoEleonora Di Valentinosubject
PhysicsParticle physicsCosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)010308 nuclear & particles physicsEquation of state (cosmology)[ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]Cosmic microwave backgroundFOS: Physical sciencesLambda-CDM modelCosmological constantAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics01 natural sciencesLuminositysymbols.namesakeQuantum mechanics0103 physical sciencessymbolsDark energyPlanck[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]010303 astronomy & astrophysicsAstrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic AstrophysicsHubble's lawdescription
The answer is Yes! We indeed find that interacting dark energy can alleviate the current tension on the value of the Hubble constant $H_0$ between the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies constraints obtained from the Planck satellite and the recent direct measurements reported by Riess et al. 2016. The combination of these two datasets points towards an evidence for a non-zero dark matter-dark energy coupling $\xi$ at more than two standard deviations, with $\xi=-0.26_{-0.12}^{+0.16}$ at $95\%$ CL. However the $H_0$ tension is better solved when the equation of state of the interacting dark energy component is allowed to freely vary, with a phantom-like equation of state $w=-1.184\pm0.064$ (at $68 \%$ CL), ruling out the pure cosmological constant case, $w=-1$, again at more than two standard deviations. When Planck data are combined with external datasets, as BAO, JLA Supernovae Ia luminosity distances, cosmic shear or lensing data, we find good consistency with the cosmological constant scenario and no compelling evidence for a dark matter-dark energy coupling.
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| 2017-04-26 |