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We employ 236 gravitational-wave (GW) sources in the fifth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA Collaboration (LVK) Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-5.0) to estimate the Hubble constant $H_0$. We compare the luminosity distance measured from GWs to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration , the KAGRA Collaboration

The {\Lambda}CDM model has long served as a robust and predictive framework for cosmology, successfully explaining a wide range of observations, including the accelerated expansion of the Universe. However, discrepancies in cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Indranil Chakraborty , Susmita Jana , S. Shankaranarayanan

The recent discovery of gravitational waves marks the culmination of a sequence of successful tests of the general theory of relativity (GR) since its formulation in 1915. Yet these tests remain confined to the scale of stellar systems or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-10 Jian-hua He , Luigi Guzzo , Baojiu Li , Carlton M. Baugh

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary stars at cosmological distances are promising and powerful cosmological probes, referred to as the GW standard sirens. With future GW detectors, we will be able to precisely measure source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

We analyze the propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) in scalar-tensor theories of gravity, with the aim of examining properties of cosmological distances as inferred from GW measurements. By using symmetry principles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Gianmassimo Tasinato , Alice Garoffolo , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

Forecast constraints for a Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity model with a $\Lambda$CDM background are made using forthcoming ground and space based gravitational waves observatories. A Bayesian analysis resorting to generated mock catalogs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-20 José Ferreira , Tiago Barreiro , José Mimoso , Nelson J. Nunes

We construct the catalogues of standard sirens (StS) based on the future gravitational wave (GW) detector networks, i.e., the second-generation ground-based advanced LIGO+advanced Virgo+KAGRA+LIGO-India (HLVKI), the third-generation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Tao Yang

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microwave background or supernovae standard candles. Here we focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

In this work, we explore how modified gravity theories based on the non-metricity scalar, known as $f(Q)$ gravity, affect the propagation of gravitational waves from inspiraling of binary systems. We discuss forecast constraints on $f(Q)$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Rocco D'Agostino , Rafael C. Nunes

Further bright sirens - gravitational wave events with electromagnetic counterparts - are keenly awaited, but proving elusive. The exceptional event GW170817 had a profound impact on the landscape of viable cosmological extensions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Elena Colangeli , Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker

Joint gravitational-wave (GW) and $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) observations are among the best prospects for standard siren cosmology. However, the strong selection effect for the coincident GRB detection, which is possible only for sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 Michele Mancarella , Francesco Iacovelli , Stefano Foffa , Niccolò Muttoni , Michele Maggiore

Gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by binary sources are interesting signals for testing gravity on cosmological scales since they allow measurements of the luminosity distance. When followed by electromagnetic counterparts, in particular,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Isabela S. Matos , Emilio Bellini , Maurício O. Calvão , Martin Kunz

We use the gravitational wave (GW) events GW170817 and GW190521, together with their proposed electromagnetic counterparts, to constrain cosmological parameters and theories of gravity beyond General Relativity (GR). In particular we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 S. Mastrogiovanni , L. Haegel , C. Karathanasis , I. Magana-Hernandez , D. A. Steer

If we assume that we live in the center of a spherical inhomogeneous universe, we can explain the apparent accelerating expansion of the universe without introducing the unknown dark energy or modifying gravitational theory. Direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kent Yagi , Atsushi Nishizawa , Chul-Moon Yoo

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries, together with an associated electromagnetic counterpart, are ideal probes of cosmological models. As demonstrated with GW170817, such multimessenger observations allow one to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 E. Chassande-Mottin , K. Leyde , S. Mastrogiovanni , D. A. Steer

Although the cosmic curvature has been tightly constrained in the standard cosmological model using observations of cosmic microwave background anisotropies, it is still of great importance to independently measure this key parameter using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-29 Yan-Jin Wang , Jing-Zhao Qi , Bo Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Jing-Lei Cui , Xin Zhang

When photons from distant galaxies and stars pass through our neighboring environment, the wavelengths of the photons would be shifted by our local gravitational potential. This local gravitational redshift effect can potentially have an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Haoting Xu , Zhiqi Huang , Na Zhang , Yundong Jiang

Since gravitational waves (GWs) propagate freely through a perfect fluid, coalescing compact binary systems as standard sirens allow to measure the luminosity distance directly and provide distance measurements unaffected by the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Shuaibo Geng , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Jingzhao Qi , Yuting Liu , Zong-Hong Zhu

We show how future gravitational-wave detectors would be able of discriminating between the concordance LCDM cosmological model and up-to-date competing alternatives, e.g. dynamical dark energy models (DE) or modified gravity theories (MG).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-09 Stefano Camera , Atsushi Nishizawa

We study the propagation of cosmological gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds from the early radiation era until the present day in modified theories of gravity. Comparing to general relativity (GR), we study the effects that modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Yutong He , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg