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Recovering cosmological parameters from the mock gravitational wave data of the Einstein Telescope

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-04-30 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with tenfold better sensitivity compared to the advanced LIGO detectors. It will be capable of observing copious stellar mass binary black hole mergers up to a redshift of 10 which will make it especially useful for cosmography. We generate a mock gravitational wave event catalog for the Einstein Telescope and show the recoverability of either the Hubble constant (H0H_0) or the matter density parameter (Ωm\Omega_{\rm m}). We present a simple, effective and fast technique for inferring H0H_0 (or Ωm\Omega_{\rm m}) using the intrinsic chirp mass spectrum of black hole binaries, and investigate the efficacy of the method assuming the standard model of cosmology. If only H0H_0 has to be constrained, we find that at least one year of ET's observation will be required to achieve 1% uncertainty. With the same amount of observation, Ωm\Omega_{\rm m} can be constrained to within 4% uncertainty. With ET operating as a standalone instrument, we show that the GW spectral sirens detected by it can constrain the Hubble constant.

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@article{arxiv.2604.25307,
  title  = {Recovering cosmological parameters from the mock gravitational wave data of the Einstein Telescope},
  author = {Pinaki Roy and Tomasz Bulik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.25307},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages, 10 figures, 1 table