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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…

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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…

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Spectral-sirens inference enables the extraction of cosmological parameters from gravitational-wave data alone, without electromagnetic counterparts or galaxy catalogs. We introduce new parametric mass functions for the binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Tom Bertheas , Vasco Gennari , Danièle Steer , Nicola Tamanini

The cosmic expansion rate can be directly measured with gravitational-wave (GW) data of the compact binary mergers by jointly constraining the mass function of the population and the cosmological model via the so-called spectral sirens.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Yin-Jie Li , Shao-Peng Tang , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new window to test the fundamental nature of gravity. We present constraints on the nonstandard propagation of GWs using the spectral siren method applied to binary black hole (BBH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) can constrain the cosmic expansion of the universe. In the absence of an associated electromagnetic counterpart, the spectral sirens method exploits the relation between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Grégoire Pierra , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Stéphane Perriès , Michela Mapelli

Gravitational wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescences can be used as standard sirens to constrain cosmological parameters if their redshift can be measured independently. However, mergers of stellar binary black holes (BBHs) may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Ju Chen , Changshuo Yan , Youjun Lu , Yuetong Zhao , Junqiang Ge

Gravitational-wave (GW) events can serve as standard sirens for cosmology, as the luminosity distance to source can be directly measured from the waveform amplitude. Specifically, the ``dark'' siren method involves inferring cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Yijun Wang , Yanbei Chen

With the release of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog GWTC-4.0 by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, 218 candidate detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) have been reported. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Grégoire Pierra , Alexander Papadopoulos

Gravitational wave spectral sirens can provide cosmological constraints by using the shape of the binary black hole (BBH) mass distribution (MD). However, the precision and accuracy of these constraints depends critically on the capturing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Matteo Tagliazucchi , Michele Moresco , Nicola Borghi , Chiara Ciapetti

Gravitational waves from compact binary mergers provide a direct measurement of luminosity distance, which, in combination with redshift information, serves as a cosmological probe. In order to statistically infer merger redshifts, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Hui Tong , Maya Fishbach , Eric Thrane

Gravitational wave (GW) sources at cosmological distances can be used to probe the expansion rate of the Universe. GWs directly provide a distance estimation of the source but no direct information on its redshift. The optimal scenario to…

Spectral-siren cosmology constrains the Hubble constant $H_0$ using gravitational-wave observations of compact-binary coalescences. The method combines luminosity distances inferred from the waveform with redshift information statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Alessandro Agapito , Viola De Renzis , Michele Mancarella

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microwave background or supernovae standard candles. Here we focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected through Gravitational Waves (GWs) are a promising probe for the cosmic expansion. These sources are standard sirens for which we can directly measure the luminosity distance, but their redshift is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Arianna Scarpa , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Filippo Santoliquido , Manuel Arca-Sedda

The measurement of the Hubble constant from gravitational wave (GW) sources is one of the independent avenues to shed light on the Hubble tension, which is associated with about an $8\%$ mismatch in the value of the Hubble constant inferred…

The challenge of understanding the Universe's dynamics, particularly the Hubble tension, requires precise measurements of the Hubble constant. Building upon the existing spectral-siren method, which capitalizes on population information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-10 Thomas C. K. Ng , Stefano Rinaldi , Otto A. Hannuksela

Gravitational-wave (GW) radiation from a coalescing compact binary is a standard siren as the luminosity distance of each event can be directly measured from the amplitude of the signal. One possibility to constrain cosmology using the GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Hang Yu , Brian Seymour , Yijun Wang , Yanbei Chen

Third-generation (3G) gravitational wave detectors, in particular Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE), will explore unprecedented cosmic volumes in search for compact binary mergers, providing us with tens of thousands of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Niccolò Muttoni , Danny Laghi , Nicola Tamanini , Sylvain Marsat , David Izquierdo-Villalba

The number of observed gravitational wave (GW) events is growing fast thanks to rapidly improving detector sensitivities. GWs from compact binary coalescences like Black Holes or Neutron Stars behave like standard sirens and can be used as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-17 Giona Sala , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues , Kostantinos-Rafail Revis , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Santiago Casas
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