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Is there evidence for CIDER in the Universe?

B. J. Barros, D. M. L. Castelão, V. da Fonseca, T. Barreiro, N. J. Nunes, I. Tereno

Abstract
In this work we analyze the full linear behaviour of the constrained interacting dark energy (CIDER) model, which is a conformally coupled quintessence model tailored to mimic a ΛCDM expansion. We compute the matter and temperature anisotropies power spectra and test the model against recent observational data. We shed light on some particular subtleties of the background behaviour that were not fully captured in previous works, and study the physics of the linear cosmological observables. One novelty found was that matter perturbations are enhanced at large scales when compared with the ones of the standard ΛCDM. The reason and impact of this trend on the cosmological observables and on the physics of the early Universe are considered. We find that the introduction of the coupling parameter alleviates the σ8 tension between early and late time probes although Planck data favours the ΛCDM limit of the model.

Keywords
dark energy theory; Bayesian reasoning; cosmological parameters from CMBR; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume 2023
2023 January

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Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia COMPETE 2020 PORTUGAL 2020 União Europeia