The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) reported the event "ZTF19abanrhr" as a candidate electromagnetic (EM) counterpart at a redshift z=0.438 to the gravitational wave (GW) emission from the binary black hole merger GW190521. Assuming that ZTF19abanrhr is the {\it bona fide} EM counterpart to GW190521, and using the GW luminosity distance estimate from three different waveforms NRSur7dq4, SEOBNRv4PHM, and IMRPhenomPv3HM, we report a measurement of the Hubble constant H0=50.4−19.5+28.1 km/s/Mpc, 62.2−19.7+29.5 km/s/Mpc, and 43.1−11.4+24.6 km/s/Mpc (median along with 68% credible interval) respectively after marginalizing over matter density Ωm (or dark energy equation of state w0) assuming the flat LCDM (or wCDM) model. Combining our results with the binary neutron star event GW170817 with its redshift measurement alone, as well as with its inclination angle inferred from Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), we find H0=67.6−4.2+4.3 km/s/Mpc, Ωm=0.47−0.27+0.34, and w0=−1.17−0.57+0.68 (median along with 68% credible interval) providing the most stringent measurement on H0 and the first estimation on Ωm and w0 from bright standard siren. In the future, 1.3% measurement of H0=68 km/s/Mpc and 28% measurement of w0=−1 is possible from about 200 GW190521-like sources.
@article{arxiv.2009.14199,
title = {First measurement of the Hubble parameter from bright binary black hole GW190521},
author = {Suvodip Mukherjee and Archisman Ghosh and Matthew J. Graham and Christos Karathanasis and Mansi M. Kasliwal and Ignacio Magaña Hernandez and Samaya M. Nissanke and Alessandra Silvestri and Benjamin D. Wandelt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14199},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
5 pages +3 pages (Appendix), 6+2 figures. Under review in MNRAS