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A validation of the cosmic distance-duality relation (CDDR) is crucial because any observational departure from it could be a signal of new physics. In this work, we explore the potentialities of luminosity distance data from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiangyun Fu , Lu Zhou , Jun Chen

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new window to test the fundamental nature of gravity. We present constraints on the nonstandard propagation of GWs using the spectral siren method applied to binary black hole (BBH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

Precision cosmology is crucial to understand the different energy components in the Universe and their evolution through cosmic time. Gravitational wave sources are standard sirens that can accurately map out distances in the Universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-27 Arnab Dhani , Ssohrab Borhanian , Anuradha Gupta , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

In the era of third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, GW standard siren observations from binary neutron star mergers provide a powerful tool for probing the expansion history of the universe. Since sterile neutrinos can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Lu Feng , Tao Han , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Modified theories of gravity predict deviations from General Relativity (GR) in the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) across cosmological distances. A key prediction is that the GW luminosity distance will vary with redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black hole merger in 2015 September and may soon observe signals from neutron star mergers. There is considerable…

We present results from searches of recent LIGO and Virgo data for continuous gravitational wave signals (CW) from spinning neutron stars and for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). The first part of the talk is devoted to CW…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Palomba

The direct detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration has opened a new window with which to measure cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant $H_0$, and also probe general relativity on large scales. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Mastrogiovanni , D. Steer , M. Barsuglia

The advent of third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detectors opens new opportunities for multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star merger events, holding significant potential for probing the history of cosmic expansion.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Tao Han , Ze Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In the absence of numerous gravitational-wave detections with confirmed electromagnetic counterparts, the "dark siren" method has emerged as a leading technique of gravitational-wave cosmology. The method allows redshift information of such…

Gravitational waves (GWs) serve as standard sirens by directly encoding the luminosity distance to their source. When the host galaxy redshift is known, for example, through observation of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart, GW detections…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Madison VanWyngarden , Maya Fishbach , Aditya Vijaykumar , Alexandra G. Guerrero , Daniel E. Holz

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens have the potential to measure the Hubble constant $H_0$ in the local universe independently of the distance ladder, and thus offer unique new insights into the Hubble tension. A key challenge with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jiaming Pan , Dragan Huterer , Camille Avestruz , Damon H. T. Cheung , Emery Trott , Neal Dalal , Donghui Jeong

The purpose of this work is to investigate the prospects of using the future standard siren data without redshift measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. With successful detections of gravitational wave (GW) signals an era of GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Xuheng Ding , Marek Biesiada , Xiaogang Zheng , Kai Liao , Zhengxiang Li , Zong-Hong Zhu

According to the theoretical study, a deformation object (e.g., a spinning non-axisymmetric pulsar star) will radiate a gravitational wave (GW) signal during an accelaration motion process by LIGO science project. These types of disturbance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Jinzhong Liu , Yu Zhang

The cosmological luminosity-distance can be measured from gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens, free of astronomical distance ladders and the associated systematics. However, it may still contain systematics arising from various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Pengjie Zhang , Hai Yu

Although the general theory of relativity (GR) predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) have exactly the same propagation velocity as electromagnetic (EM) waves, many theories of gravity beyond GR expect otherwise. Accurate measurement of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Tian-Yong Cao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi

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

The dark sirens method enables us to use gravitational wave events without electromagnetic counterparts as tools for cosmology and tests of gravity. Furthermore, the dark sirens analysis code gwcosmo can now robustly account for information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Anson Chen , Rachel Gray , Tessa Baker

The number of observed gravitational wave (GW) events is growing fast thanks to rapidly improving detector sensitivities. GWs from compact binary coalescences like Black Holes or Neutron Stars behave like standard sirens and can be used as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Giona Sala , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues , Kostantinos-Rafail Revis , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Santiago Casas

We investigate the constraint ability of the gravitational wave (GW) as the standard siren on the cosmological parameters by using the third-generation gravitational wave detector: the Einstein Telescope. We simulate the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang