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Gravitational waves provide a novel and independent measurement of cosmological parameters, offering a promising avenue to address the Hubble tension alongside traditional electromagnetic observations. In the absence of electromagnetic…

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The release of the fourth Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration includes more than 200 compact binary coalescence (CBC) candidates that can be used to probe the cosmic expansion. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Grégoire Pierra , Alberto Colombo , Simone Mastrogiovanni

Cosmological probes pose an inverse problem where the measurement result is obtained through observations, and the objective is to infer values of model parameters which characterize the underlying physical system -- our Universe. Modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Timur Takhtaganov , Zarija Lukic , Juliane Mueller , Dmitriy Morozov

Recently, some theoretical models predicted that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gravitational waves (GWs). In this work, we discuss the possibility of using GW/FRB association systems, if commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao

We review observational tests for the homogeneity of the Universe on large scales. Redshift and peculiar velocity surveys, radio sources, the X-Ray Background, the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest and the Cosmic Microwave Background are used to set…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

Detection of gravitational waves produced by merger of binary compact objects could provide an independent way for measuring the luminosity distance to the gravitational-wave burst source, indicating that gravitational-wave observation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Xuan-Neng Zhang , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The statistics of gravitational lensing can provide us with a very powerful probe of the mass distribution of matter in the universe. By comparing predicted strong lensing probabilities with observations, we can test the mass distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tong-Jie Zhang

The relationship between the metric and nonrelativistic matter distribution depends on the theory of gravity and additional fields, providing a possible way of distinguishing competing theories. With the assumption that the geometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 Mustafa A. Amin , Robert V. Wagoner , Roger D. Blandford

We present a unified Bayesian framework to jointly constrain the Hubble constant $H_0$ and the post-Newtonian parameter $\gamma$, a key probe of deviations from general relativity, using the population characteristics of strongly lensed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Xinguang Ying , Tao Yang

We explore and compare the capabilities of the recent observations of standard cosmological probes and the future observations of gravitational-wave (GW) standard sirens on constraining cosmological parameters. It is carried out in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jie Zheng , Yun Chen , Tengpeng Xu , Zong-Hong Zhu

The ratio between the gravitational waves (GW) and electromagnetic waves (EMW) luminosity distance ratio is a key observable that allows to test the nature of gravity, using gravitational waves emitted from compact binary coalescences. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Sergio Andrés Vallejo-Peña , Antonio Enea Romano , Jonathan Gair

If we assume that we live in the center of a spherical inhomogeneous universe, we can explain the apparent accelerating expansion of the universe without introducing the unknown dark energy or modifying gravitational theory. Direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kent Yagi , Atsushi Nishizawa , Chul-Moon Yoo

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) 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

Given the persistence of various tensions in the "Cosmic Concordance" -- such as the "Hubble Tension", and possible departures from LambdaCDM time evolution -- seen from combinations of complementary data sets (e.g., Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Brett Bochner , Aiden Jin

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Antonella Palmese

We present methods to rigorously extract parameter combinations that are constrained by data from posterior distributions. The standard approach uses linear methods that apply to Gaussian distributions. We show the limitations of the linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Tara Dacunha , Marco Raveri , Minsu Park , Cyrille Doux , Bhuvnesh Jain

Cosmological measurements over the next decade will enable us to shed light on the content and evolution of the Universe. Complementary measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley

Advancements in cosmology through next-generation ground-based gravitational wave observatories will bring in a paradigm shift. We explore the pivotal role that gravitational-wave standard sirens will play in inferring cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-17 Hsin-Yu Chen , Jose María Ezquiaga , Ish Gupta

We investigate how observations of strong lensing can be used to infer cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. We focus on the growth of the critical lines of lensing clusters with the source redshift as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Britta Zieser , Matthias Bartelmann