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Third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave detectors will observe thousands of coalescing neutron star binaries with unprecedented fidelity. Extracting the highest precision science from these signals is expected to be challenging owing to…

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…

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The sensitivity of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors is characterized by their noise curves, which determine the detector's reach and ability to measure the parameters of astrophysical sources accurately. The detector noise is typically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sumit Kumar , Alexander H. Nitz , Xisco Jiménez Forteza

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…

LISA and Taiji are expected to form a space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detection network in the future. In this work, we make a forecast for the cosmological parameter estimation with the standard siren observation from the LISA-Taiji…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-12 Ling-Feng Wang , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We investigate the potential to detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) through their imprints on the proper motions of distant quasars observed by the Gaia mission. Using astrometric data from Gaia DR3, we simulate the effect of GWs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 V. Akhmetov , L. Filipello , M. Crosta , M. G. Lattanzi , B. Bucciarelli , U. Abbas , F. Santucci

The dark sirens method enables us to use gravitational wave events without electromagnetic counterparts as tools for cosmology and tests of gravity. Furthermore, the dark sirens analysis code gwcosmo can now robustly account for information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Anson Chen , Rachel Gray , Tessa Baker

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

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences provide powerful tests of general relativity (GR), but systematic errors in data analysis could lead to incorrect scientific conclusions. This issue is especially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-16 Qian Hu , John Veitch

The field of gravitational wave (GW) detection is progressing rapidly, with several next-generation observatories on the horizon, including LISA. GW data is challenging to analyze due to highly variable signals shaped by source properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Maria-Catalina Isfan , Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete , Ana Caramete , Daniel Tonoiu , Alexandru Nicolin-Żaczek

The Cosmic Distance Duality Relation (CDDR) connects the angular diameter distance ($d_A$) and the luminosity distance ($d_L$) at a given redshift. This fundamental relation holds in any metric theory of gravity, provided that photon number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Brijesh Kanodia , Ujjwal Upadhyay , Yashi Tiwari

Crosscorrelation of the outputs of two Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors has recently been proposed [1] as a method for detecting statistical association between GWs and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Unfortunately, the method can be effectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Modestino , A. Moleti

We present a new constraint on the Hubble constant $H_0$ using a sample of well-localized gravitational wave (GW) events detected during the first three LIGO/Virgo observing runs as dark standard sirens. In the case of dark standard sirens,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Antonella Palmese , Clecio R. Bom , Sunil Mucesh , William G. Hartley

We present results from searches of recent LIGO and Virgo data for continuous gravitational wave signals (CW) from spinning neutron stars and for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). The first part of the talk is devoted to CW…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Palomba

We use gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes (BBHs) and neutron stars inspiraling into intermediate-mass black holes to evaluate how accurately the future space-based GW detectors such as LISA, Taiji and TianQin and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Qing Gao , Yujie You , Yungui Gong , Chao Zhang , Chunyu Zhang

Recent observations by pulsar timing arrays indicate the presence of gravitational wave signals, likely from supermassive black hole binaries. These binaries can produce two types of signals: a stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Irene Ferranti , Golam Shaifullah , Aurelien Chalumeau , Alberto Sesana

We propose a method to constrain the variation of the gravitational constant $G$ with cosmic time using gravitational-wave (GW) observations of merging binary neutron stars. The method essentially relies on the fact that the maximum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Parameswaran Ajith

The detection of gravitational waves has opened unparalleled opportunities for observing the universe, particularly through the study of black hole inspirals. These events serve as unique laboratories to explore the laws of physics under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Beka Modrekiladze

Gravitational wave (GW) observations provide sensitive tests of parity and Lorentz symmetries of gravity. Any violation of these fundamental symmetries induces possible deviations in the GW propagations. Through a systematic parametrization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Jian-Ming Yan , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Cheng Gong , Anzhong Wang

We investigate the constraint ability of the gravitational wave (GW) as the standard siren on the cosmological parameters by using the third-generation gravitational wave detector: the Einstein Telescope. We simulate the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang