Evidence against Ryskin's model of cosmic acceleration

Abstract

In this paper I examine how well Ryskin's model of emergent cosmic acceleration fits several sets of cosmological observations. I find that while Ryskin's model is somewhat compatible with the standard model of cosmological acceleration ($\Lambda$CDM) for low redshift (z < 1) measurements, its predictions diverge considerably from those of the standard model for measurements made at high redshift (for which z > 1), and it is therefore not a compelling substitute for the standard model.

Comments: Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics, copyright 2020. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/