Redshift Space Distortions corner interacting Dark Energy

TL;DR

This paper investigates how redshift space distortion measurements can constrain interacting dark energy models, showing that current data strongly favor standard cosmology and leave little room for alternative dark sector interactions.

Contribution

It highlights the constraining power of RSD measurements on interacting dark energy models, emphasizing their role in testing beyond standard cosmological paradigms.

Findings

RSD data tightly constrain IDE model parameters.

Current observations favor ΛCDM over IDE scenarios.

Little room remains for non-standard dark sector interactions.

Abstract

Despite the fact that the $\Lambda$CDM model has been highly successful over the last few decades in providing an accurate fit to a broad range of cosmological and astrophysical observations, different intriguing tensions and anomalies emerged at various statistical levels. Given the fact that the dark energy and the dark matter sectors remain unexplored, the answer to some of the tensions may rely on modifications of these two dark sectors. This manuscript explores the important role of the growth of structure in constraining non-standard cosmologies. In particular, we focus on the interacting dark energy (IDE) scenario, where dark matter and dark energy interact non-gravitationally. We aim to place constraints on the phenomenological parameters of these alternative models, by considering different datasets related to a number of cosmological measurements, to achieve a complementary analysis. A special emphasis is devoted to redshift space distortion measurements (RSD), whose role in constraining beyond the standard paradigm models has not been recently highlighted. These observations indeed have a strong constraining power, rendering all parameters to their $\Lambda$CDM canonical values, and therefore leaving little room for the IDE models explored here.