Present-day coasting in a flat FLRW cosmology with a transient acceleration pocket

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2026
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Abstract
ABSTRACT We revisit whether cosmological data require present-day acceleration. We introduce a compact phenomenological parametrization for the equation of state of a separately conserved smooth component, with independently adjustable low- and high-redshift limits and a localized pressure feature of variable location, width, and amplitude. This provides a flexible alternative to CPL-like forms, allowing intermediate-redshift structure in the expansion history to be modelled without tying it rigidly to the high-redshift limit. Embedding this component in a flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) model with pressureless matter, we test exact present-day coasting and a corresponding free-$q_0$ extension. We fit DESI DR2 BAO, the Planck CMB distance prior, Pantheon + SH0ES Type Ia supernovae, and $f\sigma _8$, using both the original SN sample and the progenitor-age-corrected form proposed by Son et al. (2025). We find that exact coasting provides a competitive fit once the Son et al. correction is applied and freeing $q_0$ gives only a marginal improvement, so present-day acceleration is not required by this combined data set.
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Authors Lilia Ferrario
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1858
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1858
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