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Gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive binary black hole (BBH) inspirals are potentially powerful standard sirens (the GW analog to standard candles) (Schutz 1986, 2002). Because these systems are well-modeled, the space-based GW…

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In this paper, we present a cosmological model-independent test for the cosmic opacity at high redshifts ($z\sim5$). We achieve this with the opacity-dependent luminosity distances derived from nonlinear relation between X-ray and UV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

Just like light, gravitational waves (GWs) are deflected and magnified by gravitational fields as they propagate through the Universe. However, their low frequency, phase coherence and feeble coupling to matter allow for distinct lensing…

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An evolving Japanese gravitational-wave (GW) mission in the deci-Hz band: B-DECIGO (DECihertz laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) will enable us to detect GW150914-like binary black holes, GW170817-like binary neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-10 Soichiro Isoyama , Hiroyuki Nakano , Takashi Nakamura

Gravitational waves can provide an accurate measurement of the luminosity distance to the source, but cannot provide the source redshift unless the degeneracy between mass and redshift can be broken. This makes it essential to infer the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Samaya M. Nissanke , Alessandra Silvestri

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

In this paper, we present the application of a new method measuring Hubble parameter $H(z)$ by using the anisotropy of luminosity distance($d_{L}$) of the gravitational wave(GW) standard sirens of neutron star(NS) binary system. The method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 Tong-Jie Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhi-E Liu , Hao-Yi Wan , Ting-Ting Zhang , Bao-Quan Wang

Searches for continuous gravitational waves from isolated compact objects and those in binary systems aim to detect non-axisymmetric, deformed neutron stars at particular locations in the Galaxy or all-sky. However, a large fraction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Andrew L. Miller , Federico De Lillo

The $Omh^2(z_i,z_j)$ two point diagnostics was proposed as a litmus test of $\Lambda$CDM model and measurements of cosmic expansion rate $H(z)$ have been extensively used to perform this test. The results obtained so far suggested a tension…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Yuting Liu , Shuo Cao , Xiaogang Zheng , Marek Biesiada , Jianyong Jiang , Tonghua Liu

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 potential association between gravitational waves (GWs) and fast radio bursts (FRBs) offers a unique multi-messenger probe for cosmology. In this paper, we develop a redshift-independent framework to constrain cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Jiaming Zhuge , Marios Kalomenopoulos , Carl-Johan Haster , Bing Zhang

The low-redshift velocity field is a unique probe of the growth of cosmic structure and gravity. We propose to use distances from gravitational wave (GW) detections, in conjunction with the redshifts of their host galaxies from wide field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Antonella Palmese , Alex G. Kim

Proposed space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as BBO and DECIGO can detect ~10^6 neutron-star binaries and determine luminosity distance to the binaries with a high precision. Combining the luminosity distance and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Shun Saito

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences encode the absolute luminosity distances of GW sources. Once the redshifts of GW sources are known, one can use the distance-redshift relation to constrain cosmological parameters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ji-Yu Song , Ling-Feng Wang , Yichao Li , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Wen Zhao , Xin Zhang

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 standard siren approach of gravitational wave cosmology appeals to the direct luminosity distance estimation through the waveform signals from inspiralling double compact binaries, especially those with electromagnetic counterparts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-30 Kai Liao , Xi-Long Fan , Xu-Heng Ding , Marek Biesiada , Zong-Hong Zhu

LISA might detect gravitational waves from mergers of massive black hole binaries strongly lensed by intervening galaxies (Sereno et al. 2010). The detection of multiple gravitational lensing events would provide a new tool for cosmography.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Sereno , Ph. Jetzer , A. Sesana , M. Volonteri

Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries are known to be an excellent absolute distance indicator, yet it is unclear whether electromagnetic counterparts of these events are securely identified for measuring their redshifts,…

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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

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