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A recent study has shown that redshift information can be directly extracted from gravitational wave sources. This can be done by exploiting the tidal phasing contributions to the waveform during the inspiral phase of binary neutron stars…

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Third-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE) will be ideal instruments to probe the structure of neutron stars through the GWs they emit when undergoing binary coalescence.…

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Gravitational-wave sources can serve as standard sirens to probe cosmology by measuring their luminosity distance and redshift. Such standard sirens are also useful to probe theories beyond general relativity with a modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Nan Jiang , Kent Yagi

Tidal effects in gravitational-wave (GW) observations from binary neutron star mergers have the potential to probe ultra-dense matter and shed light on the unknown nuclear equation of state of neutron stars. Tidal effects in inspiralling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Natalie Williams , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

Gravitational wave measurements of binary neutron star coalescences offer information about the properties of the extreme matter that comprises the stars. Despite our expectation that all neutron stars in the Universe obey the same equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Katerina Chatziioannou , Carl-Johan Haster , Aaron Zimmerman

For third generation gravitational wave detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope, gravitational wave signals from binary neutron stars can last up to a few days before the neutron stars merge. To estimate the measurement uncertainties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Man Leong Chan , Chris Messenger , Ik Siong Heng , Martin Hendry

The observation of GW150914 indicated a new independent measurement of the luminosity distance of a gravitational wave event. In this paper, we constrain the anisotropy of the Universe by using gravitational wave events. We simulate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-19 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Hai-Nan Lin , Zhe Chang

The recent breakthroughs regarding the detection of compact binary mergers via gravitational waves opened up a new window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave models have been essential to this success since they are necessary to infer the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Adrian Abac , Anna Puecher , Jonathan Gair , Tim Dietrich

Inspiralling compact binaries as standard sirens will soon become an invaluable tool for cosmology when advanced interferometric gravitational-wave detectors begin their observations in the coming years. However, a degeneracy in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-15 Chris Messenger , Kentaro Takami , Sarah Gossan , Luciano Rezzolla , B. S. Sathyaprakash

[Abridged] This study presents the first Bayesian investigation of the accuracy with which the cosmological parameters can be measured using information coming \emph{only} from the gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Chris Messenger

Detection of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by coalescence of compact binaries provides a novel way to measure the luminosity distance of GW events. Combining their redshift, they can act as standard sirens to constrain cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-28 Bo Wang , Zhenyu Zhu , Ang Li , Wen Zhao

Gravitational-wave observations of neutron star mergers can probe the nuclear equation of state by measuring the imprint of the neutron star's tidal deformability on the signal. We investigate the ability of future gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-04 Daniel Finstad , Laurel V. White , Duncan A. Brown

Fisher matrix and related studies have suggested that with second-generation gravitational wave detectors, it may be possible to infer the equation of state of neutron stars using tidal effects in binary inspiral. Here we present the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Michalis Agathos , Chris Van Den Broeck , Salvatore Vitale

The early part of the gravitational wave signal of binary neutron star inspirals can potentially yield robust information on the nuclear equation of state. The influence of a star's internal structure on the waveform is characterized by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-28 Tanja Hinderer , Benjamin D. Lackey , Ryan N. Lang , Jocelyn S. Read

Inspirals of neutron star-neutron star binaries are a promising source of gravitational waves for gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. During the inspiral, the tidal gravitational field of one of the stars can resonantly excite internal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Prakash Balachandran , Eanna E. Flanagan

The distance-inclination degeneracy limits gravitational-wave parameter estimation of compact binary mergers. Although the degeneracy can be partially broken by including higher-order modes or precession, these effects are suppressed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 Yiqi Xie , Deep Chatterjee , Gilbert Holder , Daniel E. Holz , Scott Perkins , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

The observations of gravitational wave (GW) provide us a new probe to study the universe. GW events can be used as standard sirens if their redshifts are measured. Normally, stardard sirens can be divided into bright/dark sirens according…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 Jiming Yu , Zhengyan Liu , Xiaohu Yang , Yu Wang , Pengjie Zhang , Xin Zhang , Wen Zhao

Gravitational waves undergo redshift as they propagate through the expanding universe, and the redshift may exhibit time-dependent drift. Consequently, for any isolated gravitational wave sources, the mass parameter $\mathcal{M}$ and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Tan Liu , Wen-Fan Feng , Zong-Kuan Guo

Gravitational wave observations can potentially measure properties of neutron star equations of state by measuring departures from the point-particle limit of the gravitational waveform produced in the late inspiral of a neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-19 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman , Benjamin D. Lackey

Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of the Universe. In this work, we investigate the impact future gravitational-wave observatories will have on cosmology. Third-generation observatories…

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