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Taxonomy of Dark Energy Models

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 نشر من قبل Miguel Angel Garc\\'ia-Aspeitia
 تاريخ النشر 2021
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the main discoveries of the past decades, indicating the presence of an unknown component: the dark energy. Evidence of its presence is being gathered by a succession of observational experiments with increasing precision in its measurements. However, the most accepted model for explaining the dynamic of our Universe, the so-called Lambda cold dark matter, face several problems related to the nature of such energy component. This has lead to a growing exploration of alternative models attempting to solve those drawbacks. In this review, we briefly summarize the characteristics of a (non-exhaustive) list of dark energy models as well as some of the most used cosmological samples. Next, we discuss how to constrain each models parameters using observational data. Finally, we summarize the status of dark energy modeling.



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