Update on Coupled Dark Energy and the $H_0$ tension
  In this work we provide updated constraints on coupled dark energy (CDE)
cosmology with Peebles-Ratra (PR) potential and constant coupling strength
$\beta$. This modified gravity scenario introduces a fifth force between dark
matter particles, mediated by a scalar field that plays the role of dark
energy. The mass of the dark matter particles does not remain constant, but
changes with time as a function of the scalar field. Here we focus on the
phenomenological behavior of the model, and assess its ability to describe
updated cosmological data sets that include the Planck 2018 cosmic microwave
background (CMB) temperature, polarization and lensing, baryon acoustic
oscillations, the Pantheon compilation of supernovae of Type Ia, data on $H(z)$
from cosmic chronometers, and redshift-space distortions. We also study which
is the impact of the local measurement of $H_0$ from SH0ES and the
strong-lensing time delay data from the H0LICOW collaboration on the parameter
that controls the strength of the interaction in the dark sector. We find a
peak corresponding to a coupling $\beta > 0$ and to a potential parameter
$\alpha > 0$, more or less evident depending on the data set combination. We
show separately the impact of each data set and remark that it is especially
CMB lensing the one data set that shifts the peak the most towards
$\Lambda$CDM. When a model selection criterion based on the full Bayesian
evidence is applied, however, $\Lambda$CDM is still preferred in all cases, due
to the additional parameters introduced in the CDE model.
