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most citedCosmology Intertwined II: The Hubble Constant Tension

540 citations · 1.1k across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

gr-qc2026

A Friendly Phantom: Late-time AdS-to-dS transition and cosmological tensions

Özgür Akarsu, Leandros Perivolaropoulos, A. Emrah Yükselci +1

We present Ph-CDM, a phantom-scalar realization within General Relativity of the sign-switching cosmological-constant idea, CDM, in which a phantom scalar evo…

astro-ph.CO2026

Negative neutrino mass or negative dark energy?

Cihad Kıbrıs, Willem Elbers, Özgür Akarsu +1

Recent cosmological analyses based on DESI and CMB data have revealed a tension between the inferred sum of neutrino masses and the minimum value allowed by neutrino oscillation ex…

astro-ph.CO2026

Do equation of state parametrizations of dark energy faithfully capture the dynamics of the late universe?

Özgür Akarsu, Maria Caruana, Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos +3

We investigate how strongly late-time inferences about DE dynamics depend on the functional prior used to represent the expansion history. Using identical late-time combinations of…

astro-ph.CO2026

Hints of sign-changing scalar field energy density and a transient acceleration phase at from model-agnostic reconstructions

Özgür Akarsu, Maria Caruana, Konstantinos F. Dialektopoulos +3

We present a data-driven reconstruction of the late-time expansion history and its implications for dark-energy dynamics. Modeling the reduced Hubble rate with a node-based Gaussia…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Nonlinear Matter Power Spectrum from relativistic -body Simulations: CDM versus CDM

Özgür Akarsu, Eleonora Di Valentino, Jiří Vyskočil +3

We present relativistic -body simulations of a CDM - sign-switching cosmological constant (CC) - scenario under general relativity and compare its nonlinear matter po…

gr-qc2025

Updated Constraints on Omnipotent Dark Energy: A Comprehensive Analysis with CMB and BAO Data

Enrico Specogna, Shahnawaz A. Adil, Emre Ozulker +4

In this work, we present updated observational constraints on the parameter space of the DMS20 dark energy model, a member of the omnipotent dark energy (ODE) class. Our analysis c…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 299 cited

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Adam Riess +533

The standard model of cosmology has provided a good phenomenological description of a wide range of observations both at astrophysical and cosmological scales for several decades.…

astro-ph.CO2025

Exploring the Growth-Index () Tension with CDM

Luis A. Escamilla, Özgür Akarsu, Eleonora Di Valentino +2

Recent observational analyses have revealed a significant tension in the growth index , which characterizes the growth rate of cosmic structures. Specifically, when treating …

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Dynamical dark energy with AdS-to-dS and dS-to-dS transitions: Implications for the tension

Özgür Akarsu, Leandros Perivolaropoulos, Anna Tsikoundoura +2

We investigate the dynamics and cosmological implications of dark energy (DE), modeled as a scalar field with a hyperbolic tangent potential that induces a smooth shift in the effe…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 15 cited

CDM model: A promising scenario for alleviation of cosmological tensions

Ozgur Akarsu, Eleonora Di Valentino, Suresh Kumar +3

We present a comprehensive analysis of the CDM model, which explores the recent conjecture suggesting a rapid transition of the Universe from anti-de Sitter vacua to de…

gr-qc2023

- inflation: Sourced by energy-momentum squared gravity

Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori, Fereshteh Felegary, Mahmood Roshan +2

In this paper, we examine chaotic inflation within the context of the energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG) focusing on the energy-momentum powered gravity (EMPG) that incorporate…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 48 cited

increases with effective redshift in CDM cosmology

Shahnawaz A. Adil, Özgür Akarsu, Mohammad Malekjani +4

Hubble constant and weighted amplitude of matter fluctuations determinations are biased to higher and lower values, respectively, in the late Universe with respect to e…

gr-qc2023★ 19 cited

Cosmological models in scale-independent energy-momentum squared gravity

Ozgur Akarsu, N. Merve Uzun

Scale-independent EMSG is a particular model of energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG) in which the new terms in the Einstein field equations arising from the EMSG theory enter wit…

hep-ph2022★ 10 cited

Report of the Topical Group on Cosmic Probes of Fundamental Physics for for Snowmass 2021

Rana X. Adhikari, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Ke Fang +118

Cosmic Probes of Fundamental Physics take two primary forms: Very high energy particles (cosmic rays, neutrinos, and gamma rays) and gravitational waves. Already today, these probe…

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…

gr-qc2021★ 5 cited

CDM cosmology with a quiescent anisotropy in a higher dimensional steady state universe

Ozgur Akarsu, Tekin Dereli, Nihan Katirci

In this work, which follows a series of studies on the higher-dimensional steady state universe idea and prepared for Professor Tekin Dereli's Festschrift, we show the influence of…

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…

gr-qc2018★ 59 cited

Cosmological implications of scale-independent energy-momentum squared gravity: Pseudo nonminimal interactions in dark matter and relativistic relics

Ozgur Akarsu, Nihan Katirci, Suresh Kumar +2

In this paper, we introduce a scale-independent energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG) that allows different gravitational couplings for different types of sources, which may lead…

gr-qc2017★ 8 cited

Black branes and black strings in the astrophysical and cosmological context

Ozgur Akarsu, Alexey Chopovsky, Alexander Zhuk

We consider Kaluza-Klein models where internal spaces are compact flat or curved Einstein spaces. This background is perturbed by a compact gravitating body with the dust-like equa…

gr-qc2017★ 1 cited

Brane world models with bulk perfect fluid and broken 4D Poincare invariance

Ozgur Akarsu, Alexey Chopovsky, Maxim Eingorn +2

We consider 5D brane world models with broken global 4D Poincar\a'{e} invariance (4D part of the spacetime metric is not conformal to the Minkowski spacetime). The bulk is filled w…

gr-qc2012★ 15 cited

Late Time Acceleration of the 3-Space in a Higher Dimensional Steady State Universe in Dilaton Gravity

Ozgur Akarsu, Tekin Dereli

We present cosmological solutions for (1+3+n)-dimensional steady state universe in dilaton gravity with an arbitrary dilaton coupling constant w and exponential dilaton self-intera…