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20232026
most citedA double take on early and interacting dark energy from JWST

59 citations · 134 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological constraints and standard sirens forecasts for non-dynamical dark energy in Horndeski gravity

Marcello Miranda, Ruchika, Ivan De Martino +2

We investigate an analytically tractable sector of the Extended Cuscuton model, a non-dynamical dark-energy realization within the framework of viable Horndeski gravity. We focus o…

astro-ph.CO2026

Present Day Cosmic Acceleration from SDSS and DESI BAO: A Call for Finer Tomography of the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey

Anna Chiara Ferri, Ruchika, Alessandro Melchiorri

The DESI collaboration's Data Release~2 (DR2) provides baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from over 14 million galaxies and quasars, and a joint analysis of DESI BAO, C…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optical depth to reionization in a Universe with multiple inhomogeneous domains

Shashank Shekhar Pandey, Ruchika, Subhadeep Mukherjee +1

We study the optical depth to reionization in a cosmological setting that includes backreaction from matter inhomogeneities, using the Buchert averaging formalism. We construct a s…

astro-ph.CO2025

Hubble Tension and the G-step Model: Re-examination of Recent Constraints on Modified Local Physics

Leandros Perivolaropoulos, Ruchika

We critically examine recent claims challenging the viability of the G-step model (GSM) as a solution to the Hubble tension. The GSM proposes a 4 % increase in the effective…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Resilience and implications of adiabatic CMB cooling

Ruchika, William Giarè, Elsa M. Teixeira +1

We investigate potential deviations from the standard adiabatic evolution of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature, , using the latest Sunyaev-Zeldovich…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 9 cited

Effects of a local physics change on the SH0ES determination of

Ruchika, Leandros Perivolaropoulos, Alessandro Melchiorri

The Hubble tension, a significant discrepancy between the Hubble constant () values derived from early-time (Cosmic Microwave Background and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations) and…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 59 cited

A double take on early and interacting dark energy from JWST

Matteo Forconi, William Giarè, Olga Mena +4

The very first light captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed a population of galaxies at very high redshifts more massive than expected in the canonical CDM m…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

Coupled Quintessence scalar field model in light of observational datasets

Trupti Patil, Ruchika, Sukanta Panda

We do a detailed analysis of a well-theoretically motivated interacting dark energy scalar field model with a time-varying interaction term. Using current cosmological datasets fro…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Do the Early Galaxies observed by JWST disagree with Planck's CMB polarization measurements?

Matteo Forconi, Ruchika, Alessandro Melchiorri +2

The recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have led to a surprising discovery of a significant density of massive galaxies with masses of $M \ge 10^{10.5} M_{\odot…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 23 cited

A gravitational constant transition within cepheids as supernovae calibrators can solve the Hubble tension

Ruchika, Himansh Rathore, Shouvik Roy Choudhury +1

Local universe measurements of the Hubble constant (H0) using SNe Ia with Cepheids as calibrators yield a value of H0 which is in tension with the value inferred from the CMB and o…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 27 cited

Low-redshift estimates of the absolute scale of baryon acoustic oscillations

Thais Lemos, Ruchika, Joel C. Carvalho +1

Measurements of the characteristic length scale of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust determination of the distance-redshift relation. Currently, the bes…