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Although the new era of high precision cosmology of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation improves our knowledge to understand the infant as well as the presentday Universe, it also leads us to question the main assumption of the exact isotropy of the CMB. There are two pieces of observational evidence that hint towards there being no exact isotropy. These are first the existence of small anisotropy deviations from isotropy of the CMB radiation and second, the presence of large angle anomalies, although the existence of these anomalies is currently a huge matter of debate. These hints are particularly important since isotropy is one of the two main postulates of the Copernican principle on which the FRW models are built. This almost isotropic CMB radiation implies that the universe is almost a FRW universe, as is proved by previous studies. Assuming the matter component forms the deviations from isotropy in the CMB density fluctuations when matter and radiation decouples, we here attempt to find possible constraints on the FRW type scale and Hubble parameter by using the Bianchi type I (BI) anisotropic model which is asymptotically equivalent to the standard FRW. To obtain constraints on such an anisotropic model, we derive average and late-time shear values that come from the anisotropy upper limits of the recent Planck data based on a model independent shear parameter of Maartens et al. (1995a,b) and from the theoretical consistency relation. These constraints lead us to obtain a BI model which becomes an almost-FRW model in time, and which is consistent with the latest observational data of the CMB.
In this work we explore an alternative phenomenological model to Chaplygin gas proposed by H. Hova et. al., consisting on a modification of a perfect fluid, to explain the dynamics of dark matter and dark energy at cosmological scales immerse in a flat or curved universe. Adopting properties similar to a Chaplygin gas, the proposed model is a mixture of dark matter and dark energy components parameterized by only one free parameter denoted as $mu$. We focus on contrasting this model with the most recent cosmological observations of Type Ia Supernovae and Hubble parameter measurements. Our joint analysis yields a value $mu = 0.843^{+0.014}_{-0.015},$ ($0.822^{+0.022}_{-0.024}$) for a flat (curved) universe. Furthermore, with these constraints we also estimate the deceleration parameter today $q_0=-0.67 pm 0.02,(-0.51pm 0.07)$, the acceleration-deceleration transition redshift $z_t=0.57pm 0.04, (0.50 pm 0.06)$, and the universe age $t_A = 13.108^{+0.270}_{-0.260},times (12.314^{+0.590}_{-0.430}),$Gyrs. We also report a best value of $Omega_k = 0.183^{+0.073}_{-0.079}$ consistent at $3sigma$ with the one reported by Planck Collaboration. Our analysis confirm the results by Hova et al, this Chaplygin gas-like is a plausible alternative to explain the nature of the dark sector of the universe.
We consider an alternative to inflation for the generation of superhorizon perturbations in the universe in which the speed of sound is faster than the speed of light. We label such cosmologies, first proposed by Armendariz-Picon, {it tachyacoustic}, and explicitly construct examples of non-canonical Lagrangians which have superluminal sound speed, but which are causally self-consistent. Such models possess two horizons, a Hubble horizon and an acoustic horizon, which have independent dynamics. Even in a decelerating (non-inflationary) background, a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of perturbations can be generated by quantum perturbations redshifted outside of a shrinking acoustic horizon. The acoustic horizon can be large or even infinite at early times, solving the cosmological horizon problem without inflation. These models do not, however, dynamically solve the cosmological flatness problem, which must be imposed as a boundary condition. Gravitational wave modes, which are produced by quantum fluctuations exiting the Hubble horizon, are not produced.
Motivated by two seminal models proposed to explain the Universe acceleration, this paper is devoted to study a hybrid model which is constructed through a generalized Chaplygin gas with the addition of a bulk viscosity. We call the model a Viscous Generalized Chaplygin Gas (VGCG) and its free parameters are constrained through several cosmological data like the Observational Hubble Parameter, Type Ia Supernovae, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, Strong Lensing Systems, HII Galaxies and using Joint Bayesian analysis. In addition, we implement a Om-diagnostic to analyze the VGCC dynamics and its difference with the standard cosmological model. The hybrid model shows important differences when compared with the standard cosmological model. Finally, based on our Joint analysis we find that the VGCG could be an interesting candidate to alleviate the well-known Hubble constant tension.
In this work, we explore some cosmological implications of the model proposed by M. Visser in 1998. In his approach, Visser intends to take in account mass for the graviton by means of an additional bimetric tensor in the Einsteins field equations. Our study has shown that a consistent cosmological model arises from Vissers approach. The most interesting feature is that an accelerated expansion phase naturally emerges from the cosmological model, and we do not need to postulate any kind of dark energy to explain the current observational data for distant type Ia supernovae (SNIa).
In this work, we achieve the determination of the cosmic curvature $Omega_K$ in a cosmological model-independent way, by using the Hubble parameter measurements $H(z)$ and type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In our analysis, two nonlinear interpolating tools are used to reconstruct the Hubble parameter, one is the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method, and the other is the Gaussian process (GP) method. We find that $Omega_K$ based on the GP method can be greatly influenced by the prior of $H_0$, while the ANN method can overcome this. Therefore, the ANN method may have more advantages than GP in the measurement of the cosmic curvature. Based on the ANN method, we find a spatially open universe is preferred by the current $H(z)$ and SNe Ia data, and the difference between our result and the value inferred from Planck CMB is $1.6sigma$. In order to test the reliability of the ANN method, and the potentiality of the future gravitational waves (GW) standard sirens in the measurement of the cosmic curvature, we constrain $Omega_K$ using the simulated Hubble parameter and GW standard sirens in a model-independent way. We find that the ANN method is reliable and unbiased, and the error of $Omega_K$ is $sim0.186$ when 100 GW events with electromagnetic counterparts are detected, which is $sim56%$ smaller than that constrained from the Pantheon SNe Ia. Therefore, the data-driven method based on ANN has potential in the measurement of the cosmic curvature.