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We present a measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ using the gravitational wave (GW) event GW190814, which resulted from the coalescence of a 23 $M_\odot$ black hole with a 2.6 $M_\odot$ compact object, as a standard siren. No compelling…

The dark siren method exploits the complementarity between gravitational-wave binary coalescence signals and galaxy catalogs originating from the same regions of space. However, all galaxy catalogs are incomplete, i.e. they only include a…

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Gravitational waves (GWs) accompanied by electromagnetic (EM) counterparts provide a novel methodology to measure the Hubble constant ($H_0$), known as bright sirens. However, the rarity of such multi-messenger events limits the precision…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-22 Yejing Zhan , Di Wang , Shuang-Xi Yi , Fa-Yin Wang

In the absence of numerous gravitational-wave detections with confirmed electromagnetic counterparts, the "dark siren" method has emerged as a leading technique of gravitational-wave cosmology. The method allows redshift information of such…

Standard sirens are the gravitational wave (GW) analog of the astronomical standard candles, and can provide powerful information about the dynamics of the Universe. In this work, we simulate a catalog with 1000 standard siren events from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-26 Rocco D'Agostino , Rafael C. Nunes

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are searching for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). Here we show how future PTAs could use a detection of gravitational waves from individually resolved SMBHB sources to produce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Casey McGrath , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Jolien Creighton

Precision cosmology is crucial to understand the different energy components in the Universe and their evolution through cosmic time. Gravitational wave sources are standard sirens that can accurately map out distances in the Universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-27 Arnab Dhani , Ssohrab Borhanian , Anuradha Gupta , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

The advent of third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detectors opens new opportunities for multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star merger events, holding significant potential for probing the history of cosmic expansion.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Tao Han , Ze Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We present a test of the statistical method introduced by Bernard F. Shutz in 1986 using only gravitational waves to infer the Hubble constant ($\text{H}_0$) from GW190814, the first high-probability neutron-star--black-hole (NS-BH) merger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sergiy Vasylyev , Alex Filippenko

The joint detection of the gravitational wave (GW) GW170817 and its electromagnetic (EM) counterparts GRB170817A and kilonova AT 2017gfo has triggered extensive study of the EM emission of binary neutron star mergers. A parameter which is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Hsin-Yu Chen , Salvatore Vitale , Ramesh Narayan

Local distance indicators such as standard sirens, in combination with spectroscopic redshift measurements of their host galaxies, allow us to estimate the present-day expansion rate of the Universe parameterised by Hubble's constant, H_0.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner

In this short paper, we investigate the impact of selecting only a subset of bright galaxies to provide redshift information for a dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$. Employing gravitational-wave observations from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Khuzaifa Naveed , Cezary Turski , Archisman Ghosh

The 2.5-generation (2.5G) ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors LIGO Voyager and NEMO are expected to be operational in the late 2020s and early 2030s. In this work, we explore the potential of GW standard sirens observed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-29 Shang-Jie Jin , Rui-Qi Zhu , Ji-Yu Song , Tao Han , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Although the Hubble constant $H_0$ and spatial curvature $\Omega_{K}$ have been measured with very high precision, they still suffer from some tensions. In this paper, we propose an improved method to combine the observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jing-Zhao Qi , Jia-Wei Zhao , Shuo Cao , Marek Biesiada , Yuting Liu

In this work we investigate the systematic uncertainties that arise from the calculation of the peculiar velocity when estimating the Hubble constant ($H_0$) from gravitational wave standard sirens. We study the GW170817 event and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-28 Constantina Nicolaou , Ofer Lahav , Pablo Lemos , William Hartley , Jonathan Braden

The Hubble parameter is one of the central parameters in modern cosmology, which describes the present expansion rate of the universe. Their values inferred from the late-time observations are systematically higher than those from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Renjie Wang , Wen-Hong Ruan , Qing Yang , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Hu

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

Dark sirens, i.e., gravitational-wave (GW) sources without electromagnetic counterparts, are new probes of the expansion of the universe. The efficacy of this method relies on correctly localizing the host galaxies. However, recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-05 Liang-Gui Zhu , Xian Chen

Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries provide direct measurements of luminosity distances and serve as a powerful probe of the high-redshift Universe. In addition to their role as standard sirens, they offer an opportunity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Fumihiro Chuman , Masamune Oguri

We use 47 gravitational-wave (GW) standard sirens from the third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog to calibrate distances in the strong gravitational lensing (SGL) system RXJ1131-1231 and constrain the Hubble constant ($H_0$) via the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ji-Yu Song , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang