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The properties of gravitational-wave (GW) propagation are modified in alternative theories of gravity and are crucial observables to test gravity at cosmological distance. The propagation speed has already been measured from GW170817 so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Atsushi Nishizawa , Shun Arai

We use absolutely calibrated data between 3 and 90 GHz from the 2006 balloon flight of the ARCADE 2 instrument, along with previous measurements at other frequencies, to constrain models of extragalactic emission. Such emission is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 M. Seiffert , D. J. Fixsen , A. Kogut , S. M. Levin , M. Limon , P. M. Lubin , P. Mirel , J. Singal , T. Villela , E. Wollack , C. A. Wuensche

We constrain the primordial gravitational waves from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) observations. SGWB provides the latest way to explore the early universe and the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

Gravitational Wave (GW) data bring an exceptional avenue to test the underlying models of coalescing compact objects. In the regime of strong gravity and high curvature, they allow the exploration of minute deviations from the best-fit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Guillaume Dideron , Suvodip Mukherjee , Luis Lehner

Gravitational waves from the explosive merger of distant black holes are encoded with details regarding the complex extreme-gravity spacetime present at their source. Famously described by the Kerr spacetime metric for rotating black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

The existence of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs implies that a gravitational wave (GW) background is generated by the decay products of the Higgs, soon after the end of inflation. Theoretically, all Yukawa and $SU(2)_L$ gauge couplings of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-07 Daniel G. Figueroa

We present a framework for relating gravitational wave (GW) sources to the astrophysical properties of spectroscopic galaxy samples. We show how this can enable using clustering measurements of gravitational wave (GW) sources to infer the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-16 Dorsa Sadat Hosseini , Amir Dehghani , J. Leo Kim , Alex Krolewski , Suvodip Mukherjee , Ghazal Geshnizjani

Weak gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) changes CMB statistics in a nontrivial way, allowing for reconstruction of the lensing potential and the use of these reconstructed maps in determining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Cynthia Trendafilova

In this Letter we constrain for the first time both cosmology and modified gravity theories conjointly, by combining the GW and electromagnetic observations of GW170817. We provide joint posterior distributions for the Hubble constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Mastrogiovanni , D. A. Steer , M. Barsuglia

The propagation of gravitational waves offers new possibilities for testing the theory of gravity. Amongst these possibilities there is the luminosity distance of gravitational waves, $d_{gw}$. It has been proposed to study this property by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-17 Andrés Lizardo , Javier Chagoya , C. Ortiz

We provide a systematic and updated discussion of a research line carried out by our group over the last few years, in which gravity is modified at cosmological distances by the introduction of nonlocal terms, assumed to emerge at an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Enis Belgacem , Yves Dirian , Andreas Finke , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

The detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has ushered in a new era of observational astronomy, emphasizing the need for rapid and detailed parameter estimation and population-level analyses. Traditional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Bo Liang , He Wang

We consider the propagation of gravitational waves in the late time Universe with the presence of structure. Before detection, gravitational waves emitted from distant sources have to traverse through regions of spacetime which are far from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-27 Shashank S. Pandey , Arnab Sarkar , Amna Ali , A. S. Majumdar

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact objects encode direct information about the luminosity distance to the binary. When paired with a redshift measurement, this enables standard-siren cosmology: a Hubble diagram can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Amanda M. Farah , Thomas A. Callister , Jose María Ezquiaga , Michael Zevin , Daniel E. Holz

Gravitational waves (GWs) passing through the Earth cause a correlated pattern of time-dependent deflections of the apparent position of astronomical sources. We build upon standard lensing reconstruction techniques to develop a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Alvin Leluc , Joel Meyers , Alexander van Engelen

A recent article by Wojtak {\it et al} (arXiv:1504.00718) pointed out that the local gravitational redshift, despite its smallness ($\sim 10^{-5}$), can have a noticeable ($\sim 1\%$) systematic effect on our cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Zhiqi Huang

We have considered the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) in de Sitter space time and how a non-zero value of the cosmological constant might affect their detection in pulsar timing arrays (PTA). If {\Lambda} is different from zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-28 Domènec Espriu , Daniel Puigdomènech

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

The purpose of this work is to investigate the prospects of using the future standard siren data without redshift measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. With successful detections of gravitational wave (GW) signals an era of GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Xuheng Ding , Marek Biesiada , Xiaogang Zheng , Kai Liao , Zhengxiang Li , Zong-Hong Zhu

Soon, the combination of electromagnetic and gravitational signals will open the door to a new era of gravitational-wave (GW) cosmology. It will allow us to test the propagation of tensor perturbations across cosmic time and study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Omar Contigiani , Valeri Vardanyan