Browsing by Subject "Dark energy"
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Constraining modified gravity models with cosmological data
(North-West University (South Africa), 2020)In this dissertation, we looked at the cosmological constraints of some f(R)-modi ed gravity models, such as f(R) = Rn (our rst toy model), f(R) = R + Rn (our second toy model), and more realistic ones like the Starobinsky ... -
Dark interactions beyond the Lambda-CDM model
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)In this study, cosmological models are considered, where dark matter and dark energy are coupled and may exchange energy through non-gravitational interactions with one other. These interacting dark energy (IDE) models ... -
A dynamical systems analysis of interacting dark energy models
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)We investigate using dynamical system analysis; the impacts of various interaction models whereby dark energy is coupled with dark matter. Examination on the nature of critical points for each interaction model introduced ... -
No evidence for extensions to the standard cosmological model
(American Physical Society, 2017)We compute the Bayesian evidence for models considered in the main analysis of Planck cosmic microwave background data. By utilizing carefully defined nearest-neighbor distances in parameter space, we reuse the Monte Carlo ...