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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

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new window to test the fundamental nature of gravity. We present constraints on the nonstandard propagation of GWs using the spectral siren method applied to binary black hole (BBH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

Alternative theories of gravity predict modifications in the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) through space-time. One of the smoking-gun predictions of such theories is the change in the GW luminosity distance to GW sources as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-08 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Joseph Silk

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

Modified gravity theories with an effective Newton constant that varies over cosmological timescales generally predict a different gravitational wave luminosity distance than General Relativity. While this holds for a uniform variation, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Charles Dalang , Lucas Lombriser

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 next generation of surveys will greatly improve our knowledge of cosmological gravity. In this paper we focus on how Stage IV photometric redshift surveys, including weak lensing and multiple tracers of the matter distribution and radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-18 David Alonso , Emilio Bellini , Pedro G. Ferreira , Miguel Zumalacarregui

It has been shown in the literature that detections of gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by binary sources can provide measurements of luminosity distance. The events followed by electromagnetic counterparts are, then, suitable for probing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-16 Isabela S. Matos

Gravitational waves emitted by chirping supermassive black hole binaries could in principle be used to obtain very accurate distance determinations. Provided they have an electromagnetic counterpart from which the redshift can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Jakob Jonsson , Ariel Goobar , Edvard Mortsell

Since their first detection in 2015, gravitational wave observations have enabled a variety of studies, ranging from stellar evolution to fundamental physics. In this chapter, we focus on their use as "standard sirens", describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Antonella Palmese , Simone Mastrogiovanni

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

In this paper, we ponder observational constraints on the modified $f(R,T)$ gravity, where the gravitational action is a function of Ricci scalar $R$ plus the trace of the energy-momentum tensor $T$, regarding the functional form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Mahnaz Asghari , Ahmad Sheykhi

We consider the effect of a time-varying Planck mass on the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). A running Planck mass arises naturally in several modified gravity theories, and here we focus on those that carry an additional dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Macarena Lagos , Maya Fishbach , Philippe Landry , Daniel E. Holz

Space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are expected to observe black hole coalescences to high redshift and with large signal-to-noise ratios, rendering their gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-29 Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius , David Spergel

The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations offers a whole new range of possible tests and opens up a new window which may shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In the present work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Minghui Du , Weiqiang Yang , Lixin Xu , Supriya Pan , David F. Mota

We consider two stable Interacting Dark Matter -- Dark Energy models and confront them against current Cosmic Microwave Background data from the \textit{Planck} satellite. We then generate luminosity distance measurements from ${\cal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Weiqiang Yang , Sunny Vagnozzi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , David F. Mota

We consider the potential for line intensity mapping (LIM) of the rotational CO(1-0), CO(2-1) and CO(3-2) transitions to detect deviations from General Relativity from $0 < z < 3$ within the framework of a very general class of modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Bryan R. Scott , Kirit S. Karkare , Simeon Bird

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

With planned space-based and 3rd generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors (LISA, Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer), and proposed DeciHz detectors (DECIGO, Big Bang Observer), it is timely to explore statistical cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Charlie T. Mpetha , Giuseppe Congedo , Andy Taylor

Gravitational waves (GWs) from the compact binary coalescences can be used as standard sirens to explore the cosmic expansion history. In the next decades, it is anticipated that we could obtain the multi-band GW standard siren data (from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 Shang-Jie Jin , Shuang-Shuang Xing , Yue Shao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang