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The advent of multimessenger cosmology, marked by the detection of GW170817, demonstrated that standard sirens are a valuable cosmological probe. In the absence of an electromagnetic counterpart identification, gravitational waves carry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 V. Alfradique , C. R. Bom , T. Castro

Gravitational waves (GW) can be employed as standard sirens that will soon measure the Hubble constant with sufficient precision to weigh in on the $\sim 5\sigma$ Hubble tension. Most GW sources will have no identified electromagnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 Emery Trott , Dragan Huterer

We perform a forecast analysis of the ability of the LISA space-based interferometer to reconstruct the dark sector interaction using gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens at high redshift. We employ Gaussian process methods to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Rong-Gen Cai , Nicola Tamanini , Tao Yang

Spectral-sirens inference enables the extraction of cosmological parameters from gravitational-wave data alone, without electromagnetic counterparts or galaxy catalogs. We introduce new parametric mass functions for the binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Tom Bertheas , Vasco Gennari , Danièle Steer , Nicola Tamanini

For known gravitational lens systems the redshift distribution of the lenses is compared with theoretical expectations for $10^{4}$~Friedmann-Lema\^\i tre~cosmological models, which more than cover the range of possible cases. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Phillip Helbig , Rainer Kayser

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), set for launch in the mid-2030s, will enhance our capability to probe the universe through gravitational waves (GWs) emitted from binary black holes (BBHs) across a broad range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

The dark siren method exploits the complementarity between gravitational-wave binary coalescence signals and galaxy catalogs originating from the same regions of space. However, all galaxy catalogs are incomplete, i.e. they only include a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker , Wolfgang Enzi

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Zhi-Qiang You , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Gregory Ashton , Eric Thrane , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

Since their first detection in 2015, gravitational wave observations have enabled a variety of studies, ranging from stellar evolution to fundamental physics. In this chapter, we focus on their use as "standard sirens", describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Antonella Palmese , Simone Mastrogiovanni

The measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ plays a central role in modern cosmology. In this work, we investigate the potential of strongly lensed gravitational-wave (SLGW) signals from massive binary black hole mergers to constrain $H_0$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yong Yuan , Minghui Du , Wen-Fan Feng , Benyang Zhu , Qing Diao , Peng Xu , Xilong Fan

Gravitational waves observation with electromagnetic counterparts provides an approach to measure the Hubble constant which is also known as the bright siren method. Great hope has been put into this method to arbitrate the Hubble tension.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 Y. F. Du , S. X. Yi , S. N. Zhang , Shu Zhang

Gravitational wave signal from the inspiral of stellar-mass binary black hole can be used as standard sirens to perform cosmological inference. This inspiral covers a wide range of frequency bands, from the millihertz band to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Liang-Gui Zhu , Ling-Hua Xie , Yi-Ming Hu , Shuai Liu , En-Kun Li , Nicola R. Napolitano , Bai-Tian Tang , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

Bright sirens, i.e. gravitational-wave detections of compact binary mergers with electromagnetic counterparts, provide a self-calibrated distance-redshift relation and are therefore powerful probes of cosmic expansion. Using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ranier Menote , Valerio Marra

We present the first joint gravitational-wave cosmological inference with LISA extreme mass-ratio inspirals at $z\lesssim1$ (galaxy redshifts) and massive black hole binaries at $z\gtrsim1$ (electromagnetic counterparts). Combining these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Alberto Sesana , Jonathan Gair , Enrico Barausse , Chiara Caprini , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Mangiagli , Sylvain Marsat

Gravitational waves emitted by chirping supermassive black hole binaries could in principle be used to obtain very accurate distance determinations. Provided they have an electromagnetic counterpart from which the redshift can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Jakob Jonsson , Ariel Goobar , Edvard Mortsell

We measure the speed of light with current observations, such as Type Ia Supernova, galaxy ages, radial BAO mode, as well as simulations of forthcoming redshift surveys and gravitational waves as standard sirens. By means of a Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Jaiane Santos , Carlos Bengaly , Jonathan Morais , Rodrigo S. Gonçalves

Strict measurement of the speed of gravitational wave (GW) is very important for fundamental physics. In this paper, taking cosmological effect into account, we derive a more precise formula for calculating the speed of GW based on GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Shuang Du

Atom interferometers (AIs) as gravitational-wave (GW) detectors have been proposed a decade ago. Both ground and space-based projects will be in construction and preparation in the near future. In this paper, for the first time, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang

GW170817 with its coincident optical counterpart has led to a first "standard siren" measurement of the Hubble constant independent of the cosmological distance ladder. The Schutz "statistical" method, which is expected to work in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Archisman Ghosh