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Proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors such as DECIGO and BBO will detect $\sim10^6$ neutron-star (NS) binaries and determine the luminosity distances to the binaries with high precision. Combining the luminosity distances…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kent Yagi , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Tanaka

GW170817 was the first ever joint detection of gravitational waves (GW) from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger with the detections of short $\gamma$-ray burst (SGRB) counterparts. Analysis of the multi-band afterglow observations of over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Saleem

Measured gravitational waveforms from black hole binary inspiral events directly determine absolute luminosity distances. To use these data for cosmology, it is necessary to independently obtain redshifts for the events, which may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chelsea L. MacLeod , Craig J. Hogan

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

A new synergy between gravitational waves (GWs) and the study of the large-scale structure of the Universe is now emerging. Along this line of research, we combine simulated observations of stellar-origin black hole mergers and neutral…

The historic first joint detection of both gravitational wave and electromagnetic emission from a binary neutron star merger cemented the association between short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and compact object mergers, as well as providing a…

We discuss the gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries, in the context of advanced LIGO type gravitational wave detectors. We consider properties of the expected observational data with cut on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yun Wang , Albert Stebbins , Edwin L. Turner

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…

The gravitational wave (GW) signal from the merger of two black holes can serve as a standard sirens for cosmological inference. However, a degeneracy exists between the luminosity distance and the inclination angle between the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Jian-Dong Liu , Wen-Biao Han , Qianyun Yun , Shu-Cheng Yang

The presence and detectability of coherent radio emission from compact binary mergers (containing at least one neutron star) remains poorly constrained due to large uncertainties in the models. These compact binary mergers may initially be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Rowlinson , G. E. Anderson

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious bright millisecond-duration radio bursts at cosmological distances. While young magnetars have been put forward as the leading source candidate, recent observations suggest there may be multiple FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-02 Alexandra Moroianu , Linqing Wen , Clancy W. James , Shunke Ai , Manoj Kovalam , Fiona Panther , Bing Zhang

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has detected over one hundred compact binary mergers in gravitational waves, but the formation history of these binaries remains an open question. Finding the host galaxies of these mergers will provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-16 Geoffrey Mo , Hsin-Yu Chen

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

Using the measurements of tidal deformation in the binary neutron star (BNS) coalescences can obtain the information of redshifts of gravitational wave (GW) sources, and thus actually the cosmic expansion history can be investigated using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Shang-Jie Jin , Tian-Nuo Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We show how the angular clustering between gravitational-wave standard sirens and galaxies with known redshifts allows an inference of the Hubble constant, regardless of whether the host galaxies of any of these sirens are present in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-19 Sayantani Bera , Divya Rana , Surhud More , Sukanta Bose

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers have long been considered a promising way to measure the Hubble constant, $H_0$, which describes the local expansion rate of the universe. While black hole mergers are more abundantly observed,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Lucas M. B. Alves , Andrew G. Sullivan , Yang Yang , Gayathri V. , Zsuzsa Marka , Szabolcs Marka , Imre Bartos

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers provide unique opportunities for cosmological inference such as standard sirens. However, the accurate determination of the luminosity distance of the event is limited by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Qian Hu , Haiguang Xu

In this paper, we explore the possibility of using galaxy cluster catalogues to provide redshift support for a gravitational-wave dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$. We adapt the cosmology inference pipeline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Freija Beirnaert , Archisman Ghosh , Gergely Dálya

The LIGO-Virgo and Fermi collaborations recently reported a possible joint detection of a sub-threshold gravitational wave (GW) event and a sub-threshold gamma-ray burst (GRB), GBM-190816, that occurred 1.57 s after the merger. We perform…

The joint detection of gravitational waves (GWs) and $\gamma$-rays from a binary neutron-star (NS) merger provided a unique view of off-axis GRBs and an independent measurement of the NS merger rate. Comparing the observations of GRB170817…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Paz Beniamini , Maria Petropoulou , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios