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Detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star-black hole (NSBH) standard sirens can provide local measurements of the Hubble constant ($H_0$), regardless of the detection of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart: The presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 B. Shiralilou , G. Raaijmakers , B. Duboeuf , S. Nissanke , F. Foucart , T. Hinderer , A. Williamson

Here we show how $H_0$ can be derived purely from the gravitational waves (GW) of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers. This new method provides an estimate of $H_0$ spanning the redshift range, $z<0.25$ with current GW sensitivity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-07 Leo W. H. Fung , Tom Broadhurst , George F. Smoot

Gravitational wave observations can be used to accurately measure the Hubble constant $H_0$ and could help understand the present discrepancy between constraints from Type Ia supernovae and the cosmic microwave background. Neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-01 V. Gayathri , J. Healy , J. Lange , B. O'Brien , M. Szczepanczyk , I. Bartos , M. Campanelli , S. Klimenko , C. Lousto , R. O'Shaughnessy

Gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can be used to measure luminosity distances and hence, when coupled with estimates for the mergers' host redshifts, infer the Hubble constant, $H_0$. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Daniel J. Mortlock , Stephen M. Feeney , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew R. Williamson , Samaya M. Nissanke

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers have long been considered a promising way to measure the Hubble constant, $H_0$, which describes the local expansion rate of the universe. While black hole mergers are more abundantly observed,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Lucas M. B. Alves , Andrew G. Sullivan , Yang Yang , Gayathri V. , Zsuzsa Marka , Szabolcs Marka , Imre Bartos

The detection of GW170817 and the identification of its host galaxy have allowed for the first standard-siren measurement of the Hubble constant, with an uncertainty of $\sim 14\%$. As more detections of binary neutron stars with redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Salvatore Vitale , Hsin-Yu Chen

Observations by the current generation of gravitational-wave detectors have been pivotal in expanding our understanding of the universe. Although tens of exciting compact binary mergers have been observed, neutron star-black hole (NSBH)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Ish Gupta , Ssohrab Borhanian , Arnab Dhani , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Rahul Kashyap , V. Ashley Villar , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We develop a method for implementing a proposal on utilizing knowledge of neutron star (NS) equation of state (EoS) for inferring the Hubble constant from a population of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. This method is useful in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-03 Tathagata Ghosh , Bhaskar Biswas , Sukanta Bose

The direct detections of gravitational waves (GW) from merging binary black holes (BBH) by aLIGO have brought us a new opportunity to utilize BBH for a measurement of the Hubble constant. In this paper, we point out that there exists a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Atsushi Nishizawa

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (BNSs) are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic (EM) emissions, which help identify the host galaxy. Since GWs directly measure their luminosity distances, joint GW-EM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Tathagata Ghosh , Bhaskar Biswas , Sukanta Bose , Shasvath J. Kapadia

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are sensitive to the nuclear equation of state (EOS). We present a new methodology for EOS inference with non-parametric Gaussian process (GP) priors, enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Nikhil Sarin , Hiranya V. Peiris , Daniel J. Mortlock , Justin Alsing , Samaya M. Nissanke , Stephen M. Feeney

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

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

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

Over the course of the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, several gravitational-wave (GW) neutron star--black hole (NSBH) candidates have been announced. By assuming these candidates are real signals and of astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-07 Jin-Ping Zhu , Shichao Wu , Ying Qin , Bing Zhang , He Gao , Zhoujian Cao

We present a test of the statistical method introduced by Bernard F. Shutz in 1986 using only gravitational waves to infer the Hubble constant ($\text{H}_0$) from GW190814, the first high-probability neutron-star--black-hole (NS-BH) merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sergiy Vasylyev , Alex Filippenko

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

Recent observations have accumulated compelling evidence that some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are associated with the mergers of neutron star (NS) binaries. This would indicate that the SGRB event is associated with a gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-11 Samaya Nissanke , Daniel E. Holz , Neal Dalal , Scott A. Hughes , Jonathan L. Sievers , Christopher M. Hirata

We study the impact of environmental effects on the measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) from gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary black hole mergers residing in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) near the central supermassive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Guo-Peng Li , Xi-Long Fan

The measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ plays a central role in modern cosmology. In this work, we investigate the potential of strongly lensed gravitational-wave (SLGW) signals from massive binary black hole mergers to constrain $H_0$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yong Yuan , Minghui Du , Wen-Fan Feng , Benyang Zhu , Qing Diao , Peng Xu , Xilong Fan
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