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The detection of GW170817 and the measurement of its redshift from the associated electromagnetic counterpart provided the first gravitational wave determination of the Hubble constant ($H_0$), demonstrating the potential power of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Alexandra G. Hanselman , Aditya Vijaykumar , Maya Fishbach , Daniel E. Holz

Gravitational waves (GWs) serve as standard sirens by directly encoding the luminosity distance to their source. When the host galaxy redshift is known, for example, through observation of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart, GW detections…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Madison VanWyngarden , Maya Fishbach , Aditya Vijaykumar , Alexandra G. Guerrero , Daniel E. Holz

A new measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ is presented using the statistical dark siren method applied to a sample of seven well-localized gravitational-wave (GW) events from the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) observing run and ten…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 V. Alfradique , C. R. Bom , G. Teixeira , A. Santos

Gravitational wave standard sirens enable independent measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$. In the absence of electromagnetic counterparts, the "dark siren" method statistically correlates GW events with potential host galaxies. We…

We present a new constraint on the Hubble constant $H_0$ using a sample of well-localized gravitational wave (GW) events detected during the first three LIGO/Virgo observing runs as dark standard sirens. In the case of dark standard sirens,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Antonella Palmese , Clecio R. Bom , Sunil Mucesh , William G. Hartley

The observation of binary neutron star merger GW170817, along with its optical counterpart, provided the first constraint on the Hubble constant $H_0$ using gravitational wave standard sirens. When no counterpart is identified, a galaxy…

Gravitational wave science is a new and rapidly expanding field of observational astronomy. Multimessenger observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 have provided some iconic results including the first gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Cezary Turski , Maciej Bilicki , Gergely Dálya , Rachel Gray , Archisman Ghosh

We present a new constraint on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) from the standard dark siren method using a sample of $5$ well-covered gravitational waves (GW) alerts reported during the first part of the fourth LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observing run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 C. R. Bom , V. Alfradique , A. Palmese , G. Teixeira , L. Santana-Silva , A. Santos , P. Darc

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

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

Golden dark sirens - exceptionally well-localized gravitational-wave (GW) sources without electromagnetic counterparts - offer a powerful route to precision measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, with next-generation (XG) detectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Giovanni Benetti , Koustav Chandra , Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash

Observations of gravitational waves (GWs) from dark sirens allow us to infer their locations and distances. Galaxies, on the other hand, have precise angular positions but no direct measurement of their distances -- only redshifts. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 João Ferri , Ian L. Tashiro , L. Raul Abramo , Isabela Matos , Miguel Quartin , Riccardo Sturani

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…

The current and next observation seasons will detect hundreds of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary systems coalescence at cosmological distances. When combined with independent electromagnetic measurements, the source redshift…

The use of gravitational wave standard sirens for cosmological analyses is becoming well known, with particular interest in measuring the Hubble constant, $H_0$, and in shedding light on the current tension between early- and late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-28 Rachel Gray , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

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

We present a measurement of the Hubble Constant $H_0$ using the gravitational wave event GW190412, an asymmetric binary black hole merger detected by LIGO/Virgo, as a dark standard siren. This event does not have an electromagnetic…

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 cosmological luminosity-distance can be measured from gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens, free of astronomical distance ladders and the associated systematics. However, it may still contain systematics arising from various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Pengjie Zhang , Hai Yu
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