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Probing Interacting Dark Sector with the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-10-25 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We have probed the capability of third-generation Gravitational Waves (GW) interferometers, such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, to constrain a cosmological model with an interacting dark sector. We focused on GW events with a detected electromagnetic counterpart being the γ\gamma or X emission of Gamma-Ray Burst, and a Kilonova emission. We assume the first one to be detected by the THESEUS satellite, while the second one to be detected by the Vera Rubin Observatory. We probed three different interaction kernels and found that the posterior estimation of the cosmological parameters is biased due to the existing degeneracies between the dark and matter sectors. We also found that introducing an external prior on the matter density parameter breaks the degeneracy, removes the bias results, and improves the accuracy on the dark sector parameters.

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@article{arxiv.2410.06152,
  title  = {Probing Interacting Dark Sector with the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors},
  author = {Matteo Califano and Ivan De Martino and Ruth Lazkoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06152},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

16 pages, 6 Table, and 3 Figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D