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most citedEarly Dark Energy Can Resolve The Hubble Tension

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astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: fast and interpretable posterior predictive checks for correlated cosmic probes

C. Doux, J. Muir, A. Ferté +59

We present a fast and numerically stable framework for conducting posterior predictive distribution (PPD) tests of internal consistency in correlated cosmological probes. Our metho…

astro-ph.CO2026

Disentangling cosmic distance tensions with early and late dark energy

Tanisha Jhaveri, Tanvi Karwal, Thomas Crawford +4

Recent cosmological data reveal tension between parameters inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and supernovae (…

cs.CV2026

PackForcing: Short Video Training Suffices for Long Video Sampling and Long Context Inference

Xiaofeng Mao, Shaohao Rui, Kaining Ying +4

Autoregressive video diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable progress, yet they remain bottlenecked by intractable linear KV-cache growth, temporal repetition, and compoundin…

astro-ph.IM2025

Picture an Astronomer: Best Practices for Retaining Talent in Astrophysics

Ava Polzin, Katherine E. Whitaker, C. Megan Urry +85

Women are consistently underrepresented in astrophysics yet are simultaneously subject to disproportionate attrition at every career stage. This disparity between demonstrated effi…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Going beyond : fast inference of the matter power spectrum from weak-lensing surveys

Cyrille Doux, Tanvi Karwal

Weak lensing surveys are often summarized by constraints on the derived parameter , obscuring the rich scale and redshift information encoded in…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 10 cited

Bayesian and frequentist perspectives agree on dynamical dark energy

Laura Herold, Tanvi Karwal

Baryon acoustic oscillation data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) show evidence of a deviation from a cosmological constant within a Bayesian analysis. In t…

astro-ph.CO2025

Turning a negative neutrino mass into a positive optical depth

Tanisha Jhaveri, Tanvi Karwal, Wayne Hu

Under CDM, recent baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) distance measures from DESI, which favor a low matter density , are in moderate tension with cosmic microwave bac…

astro-ph.CO2024

Uniting the Observed Dynamical Dark Energy Preference with the Discrepancies in and Across Cosmological Probes

Xianzhe TZ Tang, Dillon Brout, Tanvi Karwal +3

Recent results from Type Ia Supernovae (SNe), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) indicate 1) potentially discrepant measurements of the m…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 6 cited

Procoli: Profiles of cosmological likelihoods

Tanvi Karwal, Yashvi Patel, Alexa Bartlett +3

Frequentist profile likelihoods have seen a resurgence in cosmology, offering an alternative to Bayesian methods as they can circumvent the impact of prior-volume effects. This pap…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

The Cosmology of Dark Energy Radiation

Kim V. Berghaus, Tanvi Karwal, Vivian Miranda +1

In this work, we quantify the cosmological signatures of dark energy radiation -- a novel description of dark energy, which proposes that the dynamical component of dark energy is…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 3 cited

An Attractive Proposal for Resolving the Hubble Tension: Dynamical Attractors that Unify Early and Late Dark Energy

Omar F. Ramadan, Tanvi Karwal, Jeremy Sakstein

Early dark energy is a promising potential resolution of the Hubble tension. Unfortunately, many models suffer from the need to fine-tune their initial conditions to ensure that th…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 15 cited

The Ups and Downs of Early Dark Energy solutions to the Hubble tension: a review of models, hints and constraints circa 2023

Vivian Poulin, Tristan L. Smith, Tanvi Karwal

We review the current status of Early Dark Energy (EDE) models proposed to resolve the "Hubble tension", the discrepancy between "direct" measurements of the current expansion rate…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 14 cited

Role of the Hubble Scale in the Weak Lensing vs. CMB Tension

Lucas F. Secco, Tanvi Karwal, Wayne Hu +1

We explore a re-parameterization of the lensing amplitude tension between weak lensing (WL) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and its implications for a joint resolution w…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 37 cited

Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies

Elcio Abdalla, Guillermo Franco Abellán, Amin Aboubrahim +200

In this paper we will list a few important goals that need to be addressed in the next decade, also taking into account the current discordances between the different cosmological…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 29 cited

Thermal Friction as a Solution to the Hubble and Large-Scale Structure Tensions

Kim V. Berghaus, Tanvi Karwal

Thermal friction offers a promising solution to the Hubble and the large-scale structure (LSS) tensions. This additional friction acts on a scalar field in the early universe and e…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 7 cited

Chameleon Early Dark Energy and the Hubble Tension

Tanvi Karwal, Marco Raveri, Bhuvnesh Jain +2

Early dark energy (EDE) offers a particularly interesting theoretical approach to the Hubble tension, albeit one that introduces its own set of challenges, including a new `why the…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 87 cited

Cosmology Intertwined IV: The Age of the Universe and its Curvature

Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +88

A precise measurement of the curvature of the Universe is of primeval importance for cosmology since it could not only confirm the paradigm of primordial inflation but also help in…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 454 cited

Cosmology Intertwined III: and

Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +89

The standard Cold Dark Matter cosmological model provides a wonderful fit to current cosmological data, but a few tensions and anomalies became statistically significant with t…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 540 cited

Cosmology Intertwined II: The Hubble Constant Tension

Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +90

The current cosmological probes have provided a fantastic confirmation of the standard Cold Dark Matter cosmological model, that has been constrained with unprecedented accurac…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 83 cited

Cosmology Intertwined I: Perspectives for the Next Decade

Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ozgur Akarsu +89

The standard Cold Dark Matter cosmological model provides an amazing description of a wide range of astrophysical and astronomical data. However, there are a few big open quest…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 254 cited

The First Three Seconds: a Review of Possible Expansion Histories of the Early Universe

Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Mustafa A. Amin, Asher Berlin +23

It is commonly assumed that the energy density of the Universe was dominated by radiation between reheating after inflation and the onset of matter domination 54,000 years later. W…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 124 cited

Thermal Friction as a Solution to the Hubble Tension

Kim V. Berghaus, Tanvi Karwal

A new component added to the standard model of cosmology that behaves like a cosmological constant at early times and then dilutes away as radiation or faster can resolve the Hubbl…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 124 cited

Alleviating the and anomalies with a decaying dark matter model

Kanhaiya L. Pandey, Tanvi Karwal, Subinoy Das

The Hubble tension between the CDM-model-dependent prediction of the current expansion rate using Planck data and direct, model-independent measurements in the local unive…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1k cited

Early Dark Energy Can Resolve The Hubble Tension

Vivian Poulin, Tristan L. Smith, Tanvi Karwal +1

Early dark energy (EDE) that behaves like a cosmological constant at early times (redshifts ) and then dilutes away like radiation or faster at later times can solve…