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Kilonovae produced by the coalescence of compact binaries with at least one neutron star are promising standard sirens for an independent measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_0$). Through their detection via follow-up of…

Gravitational wave (GW) source counts have been recently shown to be able to test how gravitational radiation propagates with the distance from the source. Here, we extend this formalism to cosmological scales, i.e. the high redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 Juan García-Bellido , Savvas Nesseris , Manuel Trashorras

The discovery of gravitational-wave (GW) signals, produced by the coalescence of stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs), opens a new window to study the astrophysical origins and dynamical evolutions of compact binaries. In addition, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Jiming Yu , Yu Wang , Wen Zhao , Youjun Lu

The development of advanced gravitational wave (GW) observatories, such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, provides impetus to refine theoretical predictions for what these instruments might detect. In particular, with the range…

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Paola Leaci , Pia Astone , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Ornella Piccinni , Simone Mastrogiovanni

Gravitational-wave (GW) events can serve as standard sirens for cosmology, as the luminosity distance to source can be directly measured from the waveform amplitude. Specifically, the ``dark'' siren method involves inferring cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Yijun Wang , Yanbei Chen

In this short paper, we investigate the impact of selecting only a subset of bright galaxies to provide redshift information for a dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$. Employing gravitational-wave observations from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Khuzaifa Naveed , Cezary Turski , Archisman Ghosh

The Hubble tension is one of the most significant challenges in modern cosmology. Developing new approaches to estimate the Hubble constant is therefore crucial, and in this work, we employ a Gaussian process, a fully model-independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Gaurav N. Gadbail , Kazuharu Bamba

Gravitational wave coalescence events provide an entirely new way to determine the Hubble constant, with the absolute distance calibration provided by the theory of general relativity. This standard siren method was utilized to measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-08 Hsin-Yu Chen , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

We show how to measure cosmological parameters using observations of inspiraling binary neutron star or black hole systems in one or more gravitational wave detectors. To illustrate, we focus on the case of fixed mass binary systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 David F. Chernoff , Lee Samuel Finn

We present the astrophysical science case for a space-based, decihertz gravitational-wave (GW) detector. We particularly highlight an ability to infer a source's sky location, both when combined with a network of ground-based detectors to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-12 Kevin A. Kuns , Hang Yu , Yanbei Chen , Rana X Adhikari

Massive stellar origin black hole binaries (SBHBs), originating from stars above the pair-instability mass gap, are primary candidates for multiband gravitational wave (GW) observations. Here we study the possibility to use them as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Niccolò Muttoni , Alberto Mangiagli , Alberto Sesana , Danny Laghi , Walter Del Pozzo , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Mattia Rosati

Spectral-siren cosmology constrains the Hubble constant $H_0$ using gravitational-wave observations of compact-binary coalescences. The method combines luminosity distances inferred from the waveform with redshift information statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Alessandro Agapito , Viola De Renzis , Michele Mancarella

We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) resulting from the first joint analysis of standard sirens with weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering observables comprising three two-point correlation functions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , David Sanchez-Cid , Danny Laghi , Marcelle Soares-Santos

Joint gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) observations, as a key research direction in multi-messenger astronomy, will provide deep insight into the astrophysics of a vast range of astronomical phenomena. Uncertainties in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Xilong Fan , Christopher Messenger , Ik Siong Heng

In this Letter, we propose a model-independent method to determine the Hubble constant and curvature simultaneously taking advantage of the possibilities of future space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detector DECIGO in combination with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-12 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Yilong Zhang , Jieci Wang

We report the first measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ using the stochastic gravitational-wave background arising from binary black hole mergers. This astrophysical background is sensitive to the expansion history of the Universe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Bryce Cousins , Kristen Schumacher , Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Colm Talbot , Thomas Callister , Daniel E. Holz , Nicolás Yunes

Recently, two gravitational wave (GW) signals, named as GW150914 and GW151226, have been detected by the two LIGO detectors. Although both signals were identified as originating from merging black hole (BH) binaries, GWs from systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-28 Hee-Suk Cho

The next generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors -- Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE) will have distance horizons up to $\mathcal{O}(10)$ Gpc for detecting binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. This will make them ideal for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Pinaki Roy , Tomasz Bulik