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The advanced world-wide network of gravitational waves (GW) observatories is scheduled to begin operations within the current decade. Thanks to their improved sensitivity, they promise to yield a number of detections and thus to open a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Walter Del Pozzo

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens have the potential to measure the Hubble constant $H_0$ in the local universe independently of the distance ladder, and thus offer unique new insights into the Hubble tension. A key challenge with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jiaming Pan , Dragan Huterer , Camille Avestruz , Damon H. T. Cheung , Emery Trott , Neal Dalal , Donghui Jeong

With the advanced gravitational wave detectors coming on line in the next 5 years, we expect to make the first detections of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources, and study the properties of the waves themselves as tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-15 Alan J. Weinstein

Supermassive black hole binary systems (SMBHB) are standard sirens -- the gravitational wave analogue of standard candles -- and if discovered by gravitational wave detectors, they could be used as precise distance indicators.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-08 Charles Shapiro , David Bacon , Martin Hendry , Ben Hoyle

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) provide a new avenue to probe the cosmic expansion, in particular the Hubble constant $H_0$. The spectral sirens method is one of the most used techniques for GW cosmology.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 S. Ferraiuolo , S. Mastrogiovanni , S. Escoffier , E. Kajfasz

The third-generation ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector, Cosmic Explorer (CE), is scheduled to start its observation in the 2030s. In this paper, we make a forecast for cosmological parameter estimation with gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-26 Shang-Jie Jin , Dong-Ze He , Yidong Xu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

This Horizon Study describes a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatory: Cosmic Explorer. With ten times the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO, Cosmic Explorer will push gravitational-wave astronomy towards the edge of the…

Information about the mass spectrum of compact stars can be used to infer cosmological parameters from gravitational waves (GW) in the absence of redshift measurements obtained from electromagnetic (EM) observations. This method will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 S. Mastrogiovanni , K. Leyde , C. Karathanasis , E. Chassande-Mottin , D. A. Steer , J. Gair , A. Ghosh , R. Gray , S. Mukherjee , S. Rinaldi

In this work, we use the simulated gravitational wave (GW) standard siren data from the future observation of the Einstein Telescope (ET) to constrain various dark energy cosmological models, including the $\Lambda$CDM, $w$CDM, CPL,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Jing-Fei Zhang , Ming Zhang , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

Gravitational waves (GWs) have rapidly become important cosmological probes since their first detection in 2015. As the number of detected events continues to rise, upcoming instruments like the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Stefano Zazzera , José Fonseca , Tessa Baker , Chris Clarkson

We explore the use of the mass spectrum of neutron stars and black holes in gravitational-wave compact binary sources as a cosmological probe. These standard siren sources provide direct measurements of luminosity distance. In addition,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Jose María Ezquiaga , Daniel E. Holz

As is well known, gravitational wave detections of coalescing binaries are standard sirens, allowing a measurement of source distance by gravitational wave means alone. In this paper we explore the analogue of this capability for continuous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 M. Sieniawska , D. I. Jones

Gravitational waves from binary mergers at cosmological distances will experience weak lensing by large scale structure. This causes a (de-)magnification, $\mu$, of the wave amplitude, and a degenerate modification to the inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Charlie T. Mpetha , Giuseppe Congedo , Andy Taylor , Martin A. Hendry

Detection of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by coalescence of compact binaries provides a novel way to measure the luminosity distance of GW events. Combining their redshift, they can act as standard sirens to constrain cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-28 Bo Wang , Zhenyu Zhu , Ang Li , Wen Zhao

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 waves can provide an accurate measurement of the luminosity distance to the source, but cannot provide the source redshift unless the degeneracy between mass and redshift can be broken. This makes it essential to infer the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Samaya M. Nissanke , Alessandra Silvestri

A new generation of terrestrial gravitational wave detectors is currently being planned for the next decade, and it is expected to detect most of the coalescences of compact objects in the universe with masses up to a thousand times the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-27 Josiel Mendonça Soares de Souza , Riccardo Sturani

In this paper, we investigate the potential of dark sirens by the space-borne atom interferometric gravitational-wave detectors to probe the Hubble constant. In the mid-frequency band, the sources live a long time. The motion of a detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-24 Tao Yang , Hyung Mok Lee , Rong-Gen Cai , Han Gil Choi , Sunghoon Jung

Increasing the sensitivity of a gravitational-wave (GW) detector improves our ability to measure the characteristics of detected sources. It also increases the number of weak signals that contribute to the data. Because GW detectors have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Tania Regimbau , Scott A. Hughes