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In this paper, we explore the possibility of using galaxy cluster catalogues to provide redshift support for a gravitational-wave dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$. We adapt the cosmology inference pipeline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Freija Beirnaert , Archisman Ghosh , Gergely Dálya

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

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 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…

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…

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

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences encode the absolute luminosity distances of GW sources. Once the redshifts of GW sources are known, one can use the distance-redshift relation to constrain cosmological parameters.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ji-Yu Song , Ling-Feng Wang , Yichao Li , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Fei Zhang , Wen Zhao , Xin Zhang

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

We apply the cross-correlation technique to infer the Hubble constant ($H_0$) of the Universe using gravitational wave (GW) sources without electromagnetic counterparts (dark sirens) from the third GW Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Suvodip Mukherjee , Alex Krolewski , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Joseph Silk

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens have the potential to measure the Hubble constant $H_0$ in the local universe independently of the distance ladder, and thus offer unique new insights into the Hubble tension. A key challenge with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 Jiaming Pan , Dragan Huterer , Camille Avestruz , Damon H. T. Cheung , Emery Trott , Neal Dalal , Donghui Jeong

The disagreement between early and late Universe electromagnetic measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, known as the Hubble tension, highlights the need for independent and complementary probes. Gravitational-wave events have recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Eungwang Seo , Kyungmin Kim , Zhuotao Li , Justin Janquart , Rachel Gray , Martin Hendry

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…

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

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker , Wolfgang Enzi

The advent of multimessenger cosmology, marked by the detection of GW170817, demonstrated that standard sirens are a valuable cosmological probe. In the absence of an electromagnetic counterpart identification, gravitational waves carry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 V. Alfradique , C. R. Bom , T. Castro

With the growing number of gravitational wave detections, achieving a competitive measurement of $H_0$ with dark sirens is becoming increasingly feasible. The expansion of the Ligo-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration into a four detector network will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Madeline L. Cross-Parkin , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis , Nandita Khetan

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

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
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