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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…

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

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

In recent years, constraints on the Hubble parameter using multiple dark sirens have been made,relying on a galaxy catalogue, correlations between the mass and redshift distributions, or both. Those studies have typically used only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Reiko Harada , Heather Fong , Kipp Cannon

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

We investigate a novel approach to measuring the Hubble constant using gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binaries by exploiting the narrowness of the distribution of masses of the underlying neutron-star population.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel

Space-borne gravitational wave detectors like TianQin are expected to detect GW signals emitted by the mergers of massive black hole binaries. Luminosity distance information can be obtained from GW observations, and one can perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Liang-Gui Zhu , Yi-Ming Hu , Hai-Tian Wang , Jian-dong Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li , Martin Hendry , Jianwei Mei

Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of the Universe. In this work, we investigate the impact future gravitational-wave observatories will have on cosmology. Third-generation observatories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Zhi-Qiang You , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Gregory Ashton , Eric Thrane , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

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…

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) offer insights into the universe expansion. The spectral siren method, used without electromagnetic counterparts (EMC), infers cosmic expansion (Hubble constant) by relating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Grégoire Pierra

We present a machine learning approach using normalising flows for inferring cosmological parameters from gravitational wave events. Our methodology is general to any type of compact binary coalescence event and cosmological model and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Federico Stachurski , Christopher Messenger , Martin Hendry

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

Current gravitational-wave data reveal structures in the mass function of binary compact objects. Properly modelling and deciphering such structures is the ultimate goal of gravitational-wave population analysis: in this context,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Stefano Rinaldi , Yajie Liang , Gabriele Demasi , Michela Mapelli , Walter Del Pozzo

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

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

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 observation of gravitational waves from multiple compact binary coalescences by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detector networks has enabled us to infer the underlying distribution of compact binaries across a wide range of masses, spins, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Anarya Ray , Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Siddharth Mohite , Jolien Creighton , Shasvath Kapadia

A joint fit of the mass and redshift distributions of the population of Binary Black Holes detected with Gravitational-Wave observations can be used to obtain constraints on the Hubble parameter and on deviations from General Relativity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Michele Mancarella , Nicola Borghi , Stefano Foffa , Edwin Genoud-Prachex , Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Maggiore , Michele Moresco , Matteo Schulz

Cosmological inference using a population of binary black-hole mergers, combined with a galaxy catalog, presents an exciting opportunity for precision cosmology with the possibility of resolving the Hubble tension. However, the accuracy of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Arnab Dhani , Jonathan Gair , Alessandra Buonanno

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…

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