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Strongly lensed gravitational waves as the probes to test the cosmic distance duality relation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-01-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The cosmic distance relation (DDR) associates the angular diameters distance (DAD_A) and luminosity distance (DLD_L) by a simple formula, i.e., DL=(1+z)2DAD_L=(1+z)^2D_A. The strongly lensed gravitational waves (GWs) provide a unique way to measure DAD_A and DLD_L simultaneously to the GW source, hence can be used as probes to test DDR. In this paper, we prospect the use of strongly lensed GW events from the future Einstein Telescope to test DDR. We write the possible deviation of DDR as (1+z)2DA/DL=η(z)(1+z)^2D_A/D_L=\eta(z), and consider two different parametrizations of η(z)\eta(z), namely, η1(z)=1+η0z\eta_1(z)=1+\eta_0 z and η2(z)=1+η0z/(1+z)\eta_2(z)=1+\eta_0 z/(1+z). Numerical simulations show that, with about 100 strongly lensed GW events observed by ET, the parameter η0\eta_0 can be constrained at 1.3%1.3\% and 3%3\% levels for the first and second parametrizations, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.2010.03754,
  title  = {Strongly lensed gravitational waves as the probes to test the cosmic distance duality relation},
  author = {Hai-Nan Lin and Xin Li and Li Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03754},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures