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Quasars have recently been used as an absolute distance indicator, extending the Hubble diagram to high redshift to reveal a deviation from the expansion history predicted for the standard, $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Here we show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-14 Lorenzo Speri , Nicola Tamanini , Robert R. Caldwell , Jonathan R. Gair , Benjamin Wang

The gravitational waves generated in the coalescence of massive binary black holes will be measurable by LISA to enormous distances. Redshifts z~10 or larger (depending somewhat on the mass of the binary) can potentially be probed by such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott A. Hughes , Daniel E. Holz

In modified gravity the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) is in general different from that in general relativity. As a result, the luminosity distance for GWs can differ from that for electromagnetic signals, and is affected both by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Enis Belgacem , Yves Dirian , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

Gravitational wave signals from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries could be used as standard sirens to measure cosmological parameters. The future space based gravitational wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Antoine Petiteau , Stanislav Babak , Alberto Sesana

In the third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detector era, the multi-messenger GW observation for binary neutron star (BNS) merger events can exert great impacts on exploring the cosmic expansion history. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Tao Han , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

A joint fit of the mass and redshift distributions of the population of Binary Black Holes detected with Gravitational-Wave observations can be used to obtain constraints on the Hubble parameter and on deviations from General Relativity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Michele Mancarella , Nicola Borghi , Stefano Foffa , Edwin Genoud-Prachex , Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Maggiore , Michele Moresco , Matteo Schulz

Further bright sirens - gravitational wave events with electromagnetic counterparts - are keenly awaited, but proving elusive. The exceptional event GW170817 had a profound impact on the landscape of viable cosmological extensions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-29 Elena Colangeli , Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker

Future gravitational wave (GW) standard siren catalogues will probe the late-time expansion history of the Universe across redshift ranges largely inaccessible to traditional electromagnetic observations. To determine how effectively this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Gourab Nandi , Anish Ghoshal , David F. Mota

In this paper, we investigate the expected constraints on the Hubble constant from the gravitational-wave standard sirens, in a cosmological-model-independent way. In the framework of the well-known Hubble law, the GW signal from each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sixuan Zhang , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian

The localization and distance inference of gravitational waves are two crucial factors for dark sirens as precise probes of cosmology, astrophysics, and fundamental physics. In this Letter, for the first time we investigate the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

Joint lensing and dynamical mass profile determinations of galaxy clusters are an excellent tool to constrain modification of gravity at cosmological scales. However, search for tiny departures from General Relativity calls for an accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 L. Pizzuti , B. Sartoris , S. Borgani , A. Biviano

Measurements of the luminosity distance of propagating gravitational waves can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe. Due to the clustering of cosmic structures, in realistic situations we need to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 A. Begnoni , L. Valbusa Dall'Armi , D. Bertacca , A. Raccanelli

We consider the unified bulk viscous scenarios and constrain them using the Cosmic Microwave Background observations from Planck 2018 and the Pantheon sample from Type Ia Supernovae. Then we generate the luminosity distance measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Andronikos Paliathanasis

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

The gravitational waves (GW) emitted during the coalescence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range 10^4-10^7 M_sun will be detectable out to high redshifts with LISA. We calculate the size and orientation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Kocsis , Z. Frei , Z. Haiman , K. Menou

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

General relativity reproduces main current cosmological observations, assuming the validity of cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) at all scales and epochs. However, CDDR is poorly tested in the redshift interval between the farthest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Xiaogang Zheng , Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Shuo Cao , Tong-Hua Liu , Zong-Hong Zhu

The detection of gravitational waves (GW) with an electromagnetic counterpart enabled the first Hubble Constant $H_0$ measurement through the standard siren method. Current constraints suggest that $\sim 20-30\%$ of LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Clecio R. Bom , Antonella Palmese

Gravitational wave events with electromagnetic counterparts provide direct measurements of the Hubble diagram. We demonstrate that incorporating weak lensing into bright standard siren analyses allows measurements of cosmological parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ville Vaskonen

GWs from BNS associated with SGRBs have drawn considerable attention due to their prospect in cosmology. For such events, the sky locations of sources can be pinpointed with techniques such as identifying the host galaxies. However, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-22 Minghui Du , Lixin Xu