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    • Constraining modified gravity models with cosmological data 

      Hough, R. T. (North-West University (South Africa), 2020)
      In this dissertation, we looked at the cosmological constraints of some f(R)-modi ed gravity models, such as f(R) = Rn (our rst toy model), f(R) = R + Rn (our second toy model), and more realistic ones like the Starobinsky ...
    • Dark interactions beyond the Lambda-CDM model 

      Van der Westhuizen, Marcel Adriaan (North-West University (South Africa), 2022)
      In this study, cosmological models are considered, where dark matter and dark energy are coupled and may exchange energy through non-gravitational interactions with one other. These interacting dark energy (IDE) models ...
    • A dynamical systems analysis of interacting dark energy models 

      Molosi, Vuyani (North-West University (South Africa), 2022)
      We investigate using dynamical system analysis; the impacts of various interaction models whereby dark energy is coupled with dark matter. Examination on the nature of critical points for each interaction model introduced ...
    • No evidence for extensions to the standard cosmological model 

      Heavens, Alan; Hosenie, Zafiirah; Fantaye, Yabebal; Sellentin, Elena; Eggers, Hans (American Physical Society, 2017)
      We compute the Bayesian evidence for models considered in the main analysis of Planck cosmic microwave background data. By utilizing carefully defined nearest-neighbor distances in parameter space, we reuse the Monte Carlo ...