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Cosmological distances are fundamental observables in cosmology. The luminosity ($D_L$), angular diameter ($D_A$) and gravitational wave ($D_{\rm GW}$) distances are all trivially related in General Relativity assuming no significant…

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Gravitational waves can provide an accurate measurement of the luminosity distance to the source, but cannot provide the source redshift unless the degeneracy between mass and redshift can be broken. This makes it essential to infer the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Samaya M. Nissanke , Alessandra Silvestri

We present a new constraint on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) from the standard dark siren method using a sample of $5$ well-covered gravitational waves (GW) alerts reported during the first part of the fourth LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 C. R. Bom , V. Alfradique , A. Palmese , G. Teixeira , L. Santana-Silva , A. Santos , P. Darc

Gravitational waves (GWs) with electromagnetic counterparts (EMc) offer a novel approach to measure the Hubble constant ($H_0$), known as bright sirens, enabling $H_0$ measurements by combining GW-derived distances with EM-derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yejing Zhan , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Xiao Guo , Qing Yang , Daniele Spinoso , Fa-Yin Wang

Knowledge of the shape of the mass spectrum of compact objects can be used to help break the degeneracy between the mass and redshift of the gravitational wave (GW) sources, and thus can be used to infer cosmological parameters in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 S. Mastrogiovanni , K. Leyde , C. Karathanasis , E. Chassande-Mottin , D. A. Steer , J. Gair , A. Ghosh , R. Gray , S. Mukherjee , S. Rinaldi

We propose a non-parametric method of smoothing supernova data over redshift using a Gaussian kernel in order to reconstruct important cosmological quantities including H(z) and w(z) in a model independent manner. This method is shown to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 Arman Shafieloo , Ujjaini Alam , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

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

Gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can be used to measure luminosity distances and hence, when coupled with estimates for the mergers' host redshifts, infer the Hubble constant, $H_0$. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Daniel J. Mortlock , Stephen M. Feeney , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew R. Williamson , Samaya M. Nissanke

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

We show that the measurement of the baryonic acoustic oscillations in large high redshift galaxy surveys offers a precision route to the measurement of dark energy. The cosmic microwave background provides the scale of the oscillations as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hee-Jong Seo , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We point out a new possibility to determine the average redshift distribution of a large sample of gravitational wave standard sirens, without spectroscopic follow-ups. It is based on the cross correlation between the luminosity-distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Pengjie Zhang

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

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) offer a potential way to extend the Hubble diagram to very high redshifts and to constrain the nature of dark energy in a way complementary to distant type Ia supernovae. However, gravitational lensing systematically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masamune Oguri , Keitaro Takahashi

Gravitational wave (GW) sources at cosmological distances can be used to probe the expansion rate of the Universe. GWs directly provide a distance estimation of the source but no direct information on its redshift. The optimal scenario to…

Gravitational wave sources act as absolute distance indicators, making them powerful probes of the present-day expansion rate of the Universe, $H_0$. The cross-correlation method combines gravitational wave events with galaxy catalogues to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Madeline L. Cross-Parkin , Cullan Howlett , Leonardo Giani , Chris Blake , Tamara M. Davis

We derive a method to reconstruct Gaussian signals from linear measurements with Gaussian noise. This new algorithm is intended for applications in astrophysics and other sciences. The starting point of our considerations is the principle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-18 Niels Oppermann , Georg Robbers , Torsten A. Ensslin

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected through Gravitational Waves (GWs) are a promising probe for the cosmic expansion. These sources are standard sirens for which we can directly measure the luminosity distance, but their redshift is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Arianna Scarpa , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Filippo Santoliquido , Manuel Arca-Sedda

Recently, the combination of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2) baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data and the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements has shown a $\sim$3$\sigma$ preference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ji-Yu Song , Guo-Hong Du , Tian-Nuo Li , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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

The measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ plays an important role in the study of cosmology. In this letter, we propose a new method to constrain the Hubble constant using the strongly lensed gravitational wave (GW) signals. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Shun-Jia Huang , Yi-Ming Hu , Xian Chen , Jian-dong Zhang , En-Kun Li , Zucheng Gao , Xin-Yi Lin