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We briefly present the late-time cosmological effects of a modified theory of gravity with a non-minimal coupling between curvature and matter. By evolving the cosmological parameters that match the cosmic microwave background data until their values from direct late-time measurements, we can obtain an agreement between different experimental methods without disrupting their individual validity. We use type Ia supernovae data from the Pantheon+ sample and the recent 5-year Dark Energy Survey (DES) data release along with baryon acoustic oscillation measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) to constrain the modified model’s parameters and to compare its fit quality to the Flat-$\Lambda$CDM model. We find moderate to strong evidence for a preference of the nonminimally coupled theory over the current standard model for all dataset combinations.
This talk is based on the work conducted in JCAP06(2024)025 (arXiv:2403.11683) and in Phys.Dark Univ. 48 (2025) 101861 (arXiv:2412.09348).
