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Probing cosmic anisotropy with GW/FRB as upgraded standard sirens

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-09-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Recently it was shown that cosmic anisotropy can be well tested using either standard siren measurement of luminosity distance dL(z)d_\mathrm{L}(z) from gravitational-wave (GW) observation or dispersion measure (DM(z)\mathrm{DM}(z)) from fast radio burst (FRB). It was also observed that the combined measurement of dL(z)DM(z)d_\mathrm{L}(z)\cdot\mathrm{DM}(z) from the GW/FRB association system as suggested in some of FRB models is more effective to constrain cosmological parameters than dL(z)d_\mathrm{L}(z) or DM(z)\mathrm{DM}(z) separately due to its independence from Hubble constant. In this paper, we will show both theoretically and with simulation that, this upgraded sirens from combined GW/FRB observations could test cosmic anisotropy with a double relative sensitivity compared to the usual standard siren from GW observation alone.

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@article{arxiv.1905.01803,
  title  = {Probing cosmic anisotropy with GW/FRB as upgraded standard sirens},
  author = {Rong-Gen Cai and Tong-Bo Liu and Shao-Jiang Wang and Wu-Tao Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.01803},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages and 1 figure; match the publication version of JCAP