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Cosmic expansion is expected to influence on the size of black hole shadow observed by comoving observer. Except the simplest case of Schwarzschild black hole in de Sitter universe, analytical approach for calculation of shadow size in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-24 Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Oleg Yu. Tsupko

Information about the mass spectrum of compact stars can be used to infer cosmological parameters from gravitational waves (GW) in the absence of redshift measurements obtained from electromagnetic (EM) observations. This method will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 S. Mastrogiovanni , K. Leyde , C. Karathanasis , E. Chassande-Mottin , D. A. Steer , J. Gair , A. Ghosh , R. Gray , S. Mukherjee , S. Rinaldi

The EHT has captured a series of images of black holes. These images could provide valuable information about the gravitational environment near the event horizon. However, accurate detection and parameter estimation for candidate black…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-16 Yeqi Fang , Wei Hong , Jun Tao

Proposed space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as BBO and DECIGO can detect ~10^6 neutron-star binaries and determine luminosity distance to the binaries with a high precision. Combining the luminosity distance and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Shun Saito

Time-delay cosmology offers an alternative approach to measuring the Hubble constant ($H_0$), which is distinct from the cosmic distance ladder and cosmic microwave background radiation methods. In this study, we present an improved strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yuting Liu , Masamune Oguri

We present a method for determining the physical parameters of a Kerr-Newman black hole through shadow observation. In a system comprising a Kerr-Newman black hole, an observer, and a light source, the relevant parameters are mass $M$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Kenta Hioki , Umpei Miyamoto

The apparent shadow of a black hole provides one of the most direct probes of strong-field general relativity. While the shadow size in asymptotically flat spacetimes is well understood, the influence of cosmic expansion on its apparent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Debarshi Mukherjee

Phantom dark energy from DESI DR2 BAO [1]-[3] and bservations of Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) at very high redshift present two new challenges in cosmology and astrophysics. In this work, we show that both problems can be addressed by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 James C. C. Wong

Recently, Tsupko et al. have put forward the very interesting proposal to use the shadows of high-redshift supermassive black holes (SMBHs) as standard rulers. This would in principle allow us to probe the expansion history within a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-03 Sunny Vagnozzi , Cosimo Bambi , Luca Visinelli

We compile an updated list of 38 measurements of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ between redshifts $0.07 \leq z \leq 2.36$ and use them to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-varying dark energy cosmological models, both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Omer Farooq , Foram Madiyar , Sara Crandall , Bharat Ratra

In this work, we propose a cosmological model-independent and non-local method to constrain the Hubble Constant $H_0$. Inspired by the quasi cosmological model-independent and $H_0$-free properties of the `shifted' Hubble diagram of HII…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jian-Chen Zhang , Kang Jiao , Tong-Jie Zhang

We present a measurement of the Hubble constant made using geometric distance measurements to megamaser-hosting galaxies. We have applied an improved approach for fitting maser data and obtained better distance estimates for four galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 D. W. Pesce , J. A. Braatz , M. J. Reid , A. G. Riess , D. Scolnic , J. J. Condon , F. Gao , C. Henkel , C. M. V. Impellizzeri , C. Y. Kuo , K. Y. Lo

We re-investigated the use of the Hubble diagram to measure the cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) and the mass density of the Universe ($\Omega_M$). We find an important focusing effect in $\Lambda$ for redshifts about 3. This effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jorge Melnick , Roberto Terlevich , Elena Terlevich

A new method for measuring gravitational lensing with high redshift type Ia supernovae is investigated. The method utilizes correlations between foreground galaxies and supernova brightnesses to substantially reduce possible systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 R. Benton Metcalf

Adopting the low-redshift observational datasets, including the Pantheon sample of Type Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, and the tomographic Alcock-Paczynski method, we determine the Hubble constant to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Xue Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang

Rapid progress has been made recently toward the measurement of cosmological parameters. Still, there are areas remaining where future progress will be relatively slow and difficult, and where further attention is needed. In this review,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wendy L. Freedman

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

A cosmological observable measured in a range of redshifts can be used as a probe of a set of cosmological parameters. Given the cosmological observable and the cosmological parameter, there is an optimum range of redshifts where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 L. Kazantzidis , L. Perivolaropoulos , F. Skara

The Hubble parameter $H(z)$ is directly related to the expansion of our Universe. It can be used to study dark energy and constrain cosmology models. In this paper, we propose that $H(z)$ can be measured using fast radio bursts (FRBs) with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Q. Wu , Hai Yu , F. Y. Wang

The High-z Supernova Search Team has discovered and observed 8 new supernovae in the redshift interval z=0.3-1.2. These independent observations, confirm the result of Riess et al. (1998a) and Perlmutter et al. (1999) that supernova…