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Gravitational wave standard sirens offer a promising avenue for cosmological inference, particularly in measuring the expansion history of the universe. Traditionally, bright sirens require an electromagnetic counterpart to determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Antonella Palmese

The detection of the events GW150914 and GW151226, both consistent with the merger of a binary black hole system (BBH), opened the era of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. Besides BBHs, the most promising GW sources are the coalescences of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Barbara Patricelli , Massimiliano Razzano , Giancarlo Cella , Francesco Fidecaro , Elena Pian , Marica Branchesi , Antonio Stamerra

Future ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, i.e., Einstein telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE), are expected to detect a significant number of lensed binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, which may provide a unique tool to probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-07 Hao Ma , Youjun Lu , Xiao Guo , Siqi Zhang , Qingbo Chu

A design study is currently in progress for a third generation gravitational-wave (GW) detector called Einstein Telescope (ET). An important kind of source for ET will be the inspiral and merger of binary neutron stars (BNS) up to $z \sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 W. Zhao , C. Van Den Broeck , D. Baskaran , T. G. F. Li

We present a search for merging compact binary gravitational-wave sources that produce a signal appearing solely or primarily in a single detector. Past analyses have heavily relied on coincidence between multiple detectors to reduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-28 Alexander H. Nitz , Thomas Dent , Gareth S. Davies , Ian Harry

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), set for launch in the mid-2030s, will enhance our capability to probe the universe through gravitational waves (GWs) emitted from binary black holes (BBHs) across a broad range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

We compute the expected low-frequency gravitational wave signal from coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries at the center of galaxies. We follow the merging history of halos and associated holes via cosmological Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Sesana , F. Haardt , P. Madau , M. Volonteri

Future third-generation gravitational wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE) are expected to detect millions of binary black hole (BBH) mergers. Alongside these advances, upcoming radio surveys, such as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Stefano Zazzera , José Fonseca , Tessa Baker , Chris Clarkson

We present Fisher matrix projections for future cosmological parameter measurements, including neutrino masses, dark energy, curvature, modified gravity, the inflationary perturbation spectrum, non-Gaussianity, and dark radiation. We focus…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Andreu Font-Ribera , Patrick McDonald , Nick Mostek , Beth A. Reid , Hee-Jong Seo , Anže Slosar

Observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in two different frequency bands is referred to as multiband GW astronomy. With the planned Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA) operating in the $10^{-4}-0.1$ Hz range, and third generation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Sayantani Datta , Anuradha Gupta , Shilpa Kastha , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Recently, some theoretical models predicted that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gravitational waves (GWs). In this work, we discuss the possibility of using GW/FRB association systems, if commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from dark sirens allow us to infer their locations and distances. Galaxies, on the other hand, have precise angular positions but no direct measurement of their distances -- only redshifts. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 João Ferri , Ian L. Tashiro , L. Raul Abramo , Isabela Matos , Miguel Quartin , Riccardo Sturani

The noise produced by the inspiral of millions of white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way may pose a threat to one of the main goals of the space-based LISA mission: the detection of massive black hole binary mergers. We present a novel study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Charles Badger , Katarina Martinovic , Alejandro Torres-Forné , Mairi Sakellariadou , José A. Font

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

Mergers of binary compact objects, accompanied with electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, offer excellent opportunities to explore varied cosmological models, since gravitational waves (GWs) and EM counterparts always carry the information of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-31 Ran Chen , Yi-Ying Wang , Lei Zu , Yi-Zhong Fan

We present the first detection of weak gravitational lensing around spectroscopically confirmed dwarf galaxies, using the large overlap between DESI DR1 spectroscopic data and DECADE/DES weak lensing catalogs. A clean dwarf galaxy sample…

Many recent works have shown that the angular resolution of ground-based detectors is too poor to characterize the anisotropies of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB). For this reason, we asked ourselves if a constellation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Giulia Capurri , Andrea Lapi , Lumen Boco , Carlo Baccigalupi

According to General Relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) should travel at the speed of light $c$. However, some theories beyond GR predict deviations of the velocity of GWs $c_{\rm gw}$ from $c$, and some of those expect vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Tian-Yong Cao , Shu-Xu Yi

We propose a method for cosmographic measurements by combining gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with cosmic shear surveys. We cross-correlate the galaxy counts in the lens plane with two different source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-26 Sudeep Das , David N. Spergel