Dark sector interaction: a remedy of the tensions between CMB and LSS data

2019/03/31 by Suresh Kumar, Rafael C. Nunes, Santosh Kumar Yadav · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7087-7

published as Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (2019) 576 · 5 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2019/07/14 · arxiv updated 2019/07/16

Abstract

The well-known tensions on the cosmological parameters H₀ and σ₈ within the ΛCDM cosmology shown by the Planck-CMB and LSS data are possibly due to the systematics in the data or our ignorance of some new physics beyond the ΛCDM model. In this letter, we focus on the second possibility, and investigate a minimal extension of the ΛCDM model by allowing a coupling between its dark sector components (dark energy and dark matter). We analyze this scenario with Planck-CMB, KiDS and HST data, and find that the H₀ and σ₈ tensions disappear at 68% CL. In the joint analyzes with Planck, HST and KiDS data, we find non-zero coupling in the dark sector up to 99% CL. Thus, we find a strong statistical support from the observational data for an interaction in the dark sector of the Universe while solving the H₀ and σ₈ tensions simultaneously.

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