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Probing beyond-$\Lambda$CDM cosmology with Gravitational Waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-05-09 v1

Abstract

The propagation of Gravitational Waves has been reliably recognised as a test-bed for beyond standard models of gravity and cosmology. We utilise this property to examine the effects of a class of parametrised beyond-Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology on inferece of GW parameters. We find that the combined beyond-Λ\LambdaCDM likelihood function exhibits correlations between the parameters which are especially dependent upon binary eccentricity. Expanding on previous results, we demonstrate through Fisher forecasts that we would need nearly 1 year of 3G GW data to be able to infer the beyond-Λ\LambdaCDM model to 2σ2\sigma significance. We also find counter-intuitively that errors of source-modelling leave large biases upon the inference of the beyond-Λ\LambdaCDM parameters which come into play only during GW propagation.

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@article{arxiv.2305.04070,
  title  = {Probing beyond-$\Lambda$CDM cosmology with Gravitational Waves},
  author = {Kabir Chakravarti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.04070},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures

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