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Reducing cosmological degeneracies by combining multiple classes of LISA gravitational-wave standard sirens

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-03-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at z1z\lesssim1 (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at z1z\gtrsim1 (electromagnetic counterparts). Combining these standard sirens reduces cosmological degeneracies and yields competitive constraints on the Hubble constant H0H_0 and the dark-energy equation-of-state parameter w0w_0. This highlights LISA's potential for late-time cosmology across a broad redshift range with systematics distinct from electromagnetic distance indicators.

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@article{arxiv.2603.23612,
  title  = {Reducing cosmological degeneracies by combining multiple classes of LISA gravitational-wave standard sirens},
  author = {Danny Laghi and Nicola Tamanini and Alberto Sesana and Jonathan Gair and Enrico Barausse and Chiara Caprini and Walter Del Pozzo and Alberto Mangiagli and Sylvain Marsat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.23612},
  year   = {2026}
}

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7+2 pages, 3 figures