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Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a powerful means for cosmological distance estimation, circumventing the systematic uncertainties associated with traditional electromagnetic (EM) indicators. This work presents a model for estimating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Trisha V , Rakesh V , Arun Kenath

Numerous observations have shown that almost all galaxies in our Universe host supermassive black holes (SMBHs), but there is still much debate about their formation and evolutionary processes. Recently, gravitational waves (GWs) have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-26 Kazuya Furusawa , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Kiyotomo Ichiki

Recently, strong evidence was found for the presence of higher-order modes in the gravitational wave signals GW190412 and GW190814, which originated from compact binary coalescences with significantly asymmetric component masses. This has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Anna Puecher , Chinmay Kalaghatgi , Soumen Roy , Yoshinta Setyawati , Ish Gupta , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Chris Van Den Broeck

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory to measure gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band. This frequency band is expected to be dominated by signals from millions of Galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

Gravitational Wave (GW) sources are standard sirens that provide an independent way to map the cosmic expansion history by combining with an independent redshift measurement either from an electromagnetic counterpart for a bright siren or…

This paper summarises the potential of the LISA mission to constrain the expansion history of the universe using massive black hole binary mergers as gravitational wave standard sirens. After briefly reviewing the concept of standard siren,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Nicola Tamanini

Supermassive black hole binary systems (SMBHBs) should be the most powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe. Once Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) detect the stochastic GW background from their cosmic merger history,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-26 Nicole M. Khusid , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Priyamvada Natarajan , J. Andrew Casey-Clyde , Anna Barnacka

Gravitational wave standard sirens typically require electromagnetic (EM) data to obtain redshift information to constrain cosmology. Difficult to find EM counterparts for bright sirens and galaxy survey systematics for dark sirens make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Anarya Ray

Third generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect millions of binary black hole (BBH) mergers during their operation period. A small fraction of them ($\sim 1\%$) will be strongly lensed by intervening galaxies and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-17 Souvik Jana , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Parameswaran Ajith

We present our analysis of a set of populations of massive black hole (MBH) binaries generated in the recent semi-analytic model of galaxy evolution (SHARK). We focus on studying gravitational wave (GW) emission produced during MBH mergers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Małgorzata Curyło , Tomasz Bulik

This study presents the modeling of the gravitational wave (GW) bias parameter by bridging a connection between simulated GW sources and galaxies in low redshift galaxy surveys 2MPZ and WISExSCOS (WISC). We study this connection by creating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Amir Dehghani , J. Leo Kim , Dorsa Sadat Hosseini , Alex Krolewski , Suvodip Mukherjee , Ghazal Geshnizjani

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

The Galaxy is suspected to contain hundreds of millions of binary white dwarf systems, a large fraction of which will have sufficiently small orbital period to emit gravitational radiation in band for space-based gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Tyson B. Littenberg

We investigate the evolution of supermassive binary black holes (BBHs) in galaxies with realistic property distributions and the gravitational-wave (GW) radiation from the cosmic population of these BBHs. We incorporate a comprehensive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-24 Yunfeng Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

In this follow-up paper, we continue our study of the effect of using knowledge from electromagnetic observations in the gravitational wave (GW) data analysis of Galactic binaries that are predicted to be observed by the new \textit{Laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sweta Shah , Gijs Nelemans , Marc van der Sluys

Massive black hole binary coalescences are prime targets for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as {\it LISA}. GW measurements can localize the position of a coalescing binary on the sky to an ellipse with a major axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-28 Ryan N. Lang , Scott A. Hughes

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy opens a new venue to explore the universe. Future observatories such as LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, are expected to observe previously undetectable fundamental physics effects in signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Adrien Cogez , Silvia Gasparotto , Jann Zosso , Henri Inchauspé , Chantal Pitte , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Antoine Petiteau , Marc Besancon

We study gravitational wave (GW) emission in the strong-field regime by a hierarchical triple system composed of a binary system placed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The LIGO-Virgo collaboration recently reported…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Vitor Cardoso , Francisco Duque , Gaurav Khanna

Lensed gravitational wave (GW) events are expected to be powerful new probes of cosmology, contingent on redshift measurement by electromagnetic observations. Host galaxy identification is thus crucial but challenging due to poor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhiwei Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu , Xiao Guo

The existence of a primordial stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is a common prediction in various models of the early Universe. Despite constraints at different frequency ranges and claims of detection in the nHz range by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Matteo Braglia , Mauro Pieroni , Sylvain Marsat