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Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact objects provide us with information of the distance scale since we can infer the absolute luminosity of the source from analysis of the wave form, which is known as standard sirens. The first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Ken Osato

We present the first joint inference of standard sirens and gravitational wave weak lensing by filtering of the same dataset. We imagine a post-LISA scenario emerging around the late 2030s when LISA will have accumulated a number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-03 Giuseppe Congedo , Andy Taylor

Accurate estimation of the Hubble constant, and other cosmological parameters, from distances measured by cosmic gravitational wave sirens requires sufficient allowance for the dark energy evolution. We demonstrate how model independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 Ryan E. Keeley , Arman Shafieloo , Benjamin L'Huillier , Eric V. Linder

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

Local distance indicators such as standard sirens, in combination with spectroscopic redshift measurements of their host galaxies, allow us to estimate the present-day expansion rate of the Universe parameterised by Hubble's constant, H_0.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner

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 multi-messenger observation of GW170817 enabled the first historic measurement of the Hubble constant via a standard siren, so-called in analogy to standard candles that enabled the measurement of the luminosity distance versus redshift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-29 Josiel Mendonça , Riccardo Sturani

The measurement of the Hubble-Lema\^{i}tre constant $(H_0)$ from the cosmic microwave background and the Type IA supernovae are at odds with each other. One way to resolve this tension is to use an independent way to measure $H_0$. This can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Ish Gupta

The current and next observation seasons will detect hundreds of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary systems coalescence at cosmological distances. When combined with independent electromagnetic measurements, the source redshift…

The gravitational wave (GW) as a standard siren directly determines the luminosity distance from the gravitational waveform without reference to the specific cosmological model, of which the redshift can be obtained separately by means of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Rong-Gen Cai , Tong-Bo Liu , Xue-Wen Liu , Shao-Jiang Wang , Tao Yang

In this work we investigate the systematic uncertainties that arise from the calculation of the peculiar velocity when estimating the Hubble constant ($H_0$) from gravitational wave standard sirens. We study the GW170817 event and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Constantina Nicolaou , Ofer Lahav , Pablo Lemos , William Hartley , Jonathan Braden

Gravitational wave standard sirens typically require electromagnetic (EM) data to obtain redshift information to constrain cosmology. Difficult to find EM counterparts for bright sirens and galaxy survey systematics for dark sirens make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Anarya Ray

Cosmological inference using a population of binary black-hole mergers, combined with a galaxy catalog, presents an exciting opportunity for precision cosmology with the possibility of resolving the Hubble tension. However, the accuracy of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Arnab Dhani , Jonathan Gair , Alessandra Buonanno

Gravitational wave standard sirens offer a promising avenue for cosmological inference, particularly in measuring the expansion history of the universe. Traditionally, bright sirens require an electromagnetic counterpart to determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Antonella Palmese

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) can constrain the cosmic expansion of the universe. In the absence of an associated electromagnetic counterpart, the spectral sirens method exploits the relation between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Grégoire Pierra , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Stéphane Perriès , Michela Mapelli

Standard sirens are the gravitational wave (GW) analog of the astronomical standard candles, and can provide powerful information about the dynamics of the Universe. In this work, we simulate a catalog with 1000 standard siren events from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-26 Rocco D'Agostino , Rafael C. Nunes

We constrain the Hu-Sawicki and Starobinsky $f(R)$ gravity models utilizing current electromagnetic (PP+CC, Planck and DESI2) datasets and simulate standard siren catalogs based on the resulting best-fit parameters. We demonstrate that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Yi Zhang , Xuanjun Niu , Xianfu Su , Dong-Ze He

The origin of the Hubble tension remains one of the central open problems in modern cosmology, with competing explanations invoking either early-Universe physics, late-time modifications of cosmic expansion, or unresolved observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Gravitational wave (GW) sources are an excellent probe of the luminosity distance and offer a novel measure of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. This estimation of $H_0$ from standard sirens requires an accurate estimation of the cosmological…

The mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) can serve as standard sirens: the gravitational wave (GW) analog of standard candles. The upcoming space-borne GW detectors will be able to discover such systems and estimate their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Zhao-Feng Wu , Lok W. L. Chan , Martin Hendry , Otto A. Hannuksela