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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 investigate a novel approach to measuring the Hubble constant using gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binaries by exploiting the narrowness of the distribution of masses of the underlying neutron-star population.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel

Gravitational wave standard sirens enable independent measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$. In the absence of electromagnetic counterparts, the "dark siren" method statistically correlates GW events with potential host galaxies. We…

The detection of GW170817 and the measurement of its redshift from the associated electromagnetic counterpart provided the first gravitational wave determination of the Hubble constant ($H_0$), demonstrating the potential power of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Alexandra G. Hanselman , Aditya Vijaykumar , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

The use of gravitational wave standard sirens for cosmological analyses is becoming well known, with particular interest in measuring the Hubble constant, $H_0$, and in shedding light on the current tension between early- and late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-28 Rachel Gray , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

The discovery of the gravitational-wave event GW170817 from a binary neutron star merger, together with its multi-wavelength electromagnetic counterparts, marks the beginning of the era of multi-messenger gravitational wave astronomy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Wen Zhao , Liang-Gui Zhu , Youjun Lu

Gravitational wave science is a new and rapidly expanding field of observational astronomy. Multimessenger observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 have provided some iconic results including the first gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Cezary Turski , Maciej Bilicki , Gergely Dálya , Rachel Gray , Archisman Ghosh

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 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

A major challenge in gravitational-wave multi-messenger astrophysics is the imprecise localization of gravitational-wave compact binary mergers. We investigate the use of a method to include galaxy catalog information in performing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Geoffrey Mo , Carl-Johan Haster , Erik Katsavounidis

The Hubble Constant observed at high redshift and low redshift are inconsistent, representing one of the urgent issues to be resolved in the field of cosmology. The discovery of gravitational waves opens a new window for addressing this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Xu Chao

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…

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

During the next decade, gravitational waves will be observed from hundreds of binary inspiral events. When the redshifts of the host galaxies are known, these events can be used as `standard sirens', sensitive to the expansion rate of the…

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

The number of observed gravitational wave (GW) events is growing fast thanks to rapidly improving detector sensitivities. GWs from compact binary coalescences like Black Holes or Neutron Stars behave like standard sirens and can be used as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Giona Sala , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues , Kostantinos-Rafail Revis , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Santiago Casas

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences have matured into a robust cosmological probe, providing self-calibrated luminosity distance measurements independent of any cosmic distance ladder, hence the term "standard…

The joint observation of the gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signal from the binary neutron-star merger GW170817 allowed for a new independent measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$, albeit with an uncertainty of about 15\% at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Juan Calderón Bustillo , Samson H. W. Leong , Tim Dietrich , Paul D. Lasky

In this short paper, we investigate the impact of selecting only a subset of bright galaxies to provide redshift information for a dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$. Employing gravitational-wave observations from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Khuzaifa Naveed , Cezary Turski , Archisman Ghosh
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