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Gravitational-wave standard sirens present a novel approach for the determination of the Hubble constant. After the recent spectacular confirmation of the method thanks to GW170817 and its optical counterpart, additional standard siren…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Eleonora Di Valentino , Daniel E. Holz , Alessandro Melchiorri , Fabrizio Renzi

The planned sensitivity upgrades to the LIGO and Virgo facilities could uniquely identify host galaxies of dark sirens-compact binary coalescences without any electromagnetic counterparts-within a redshift of z = 0.1. This is aided by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Ssohrab Borhanian , Arnab Dhani , Anuradha Gupta , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Gravitational waves (GWs) offer a novel avenue for probing the Universe. One of their exciting applications is the independent measurement of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, using dark standard sirens, which combine GW signals with galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Cezary Turski , Maria Lisa Brozzetti , Gergely Dálya , Michele Punturo , Archisman Ghosh

The Hubble Constant observed at high redshift and low redshift are inconsistent, representing one of the urgent issues to be resolved in the field of cosmology. The discovery of gravitational waves opens a new window for addressing this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Xu Chao

We present the application of a robust test of galaxy catalogue completeness to the gwcosmo pipeline. The method implements a straightforward statistical test for determining the apparent magnitude completeness limit of a magnitude-redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 L. Datrier , M. Hendry

We show how the angular clustering between gravitational-wave standard sirens and galaxies with known redshifts allows an inference of the Hubble constant, regardless of whether the host galaxies of any of these sirens are present in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-19 Sayantani Bera , Divya Rana , Surhud More , Sukanta Bose

Multi-band gravitational-wave (GW) standard siren observations are poised to herald a new era in the study of cosmic evolution. These observations offer higher signal-to-noise ratios and improved localizations compared to those achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Yue-Yan Dong , Ji-Yu Song , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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

We present a new measurement of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) resulting from the first joint analysis of standard sirens with weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering observables comprising three two-point correlation functions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , David Sanchez-Cid , Danny Laghi , Marcelle Soares-Santos

We show how the distances to binary black holes measured in gravitational wave observations with ground-based interferometers can be used to constrain the redshift-distance relation and, thereby, measure the Hubble constant ($H_0$).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-05 Remya Nair , Sukanta Bose , Tarun Deep Saini

Gravitational waves emitted by chirping supermassive black hole binaries could in principle be used to obtain very accurate distance determinations. Provided they have an electromagnetic counterpart from which the redshift can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Jakob Jonsson , Ariel Goobar , Edvard Mortsell

Gravitational waves (GWs) offer an alternative way to measure the Hubble parameter. The optimal technique, the ``bright siren'' approach, requires the identification of an electromagnetic counterpart. However, a significant fraction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Marios Kalomenopoulos , Riccardo Barbieri , Sadegh Khochfar , Jonathan Gair , Robert J. McGibbon

Gravitational waves might help resolve the tension between early and late Universe measurements of the Hubble constant, and this possibility can be enhanced with a gravitational wave detector in the decihertz band as we will demonstrate in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-13 Brian C. Seymour , Hang Yu , Yanbei Chen

Bright sirens, i.e. gravitational-wave detections of compact binary mergers with electromagnetic counterparts, provide a self-calibrated distance-redshift relation and are therefore powerful probes of cosmic expansion. Using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Ranier Menote , Valerio Marra

The measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ plays a central role in modern cosmology. In this work, we investigate the potential of strongly lensed gravitational-wave (SLGW) signals from massive binary black hole mergers to constrain $H_0$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Yong Yuan , Minghui Du , Wen-Fan Feng , Benyang Zhu , Qing Diao , Peng Xu , Xilong Fan

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

Accurate estimation of the Hubble constant, and other cosmological parameters, from distances measured by cosmic gravitational wave sirens requires sufficient allowance for the dark energy evolution. We demonstrate how model independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-17 Ryan E. Keeley , Arman Shafieloo , Benjamin L'Huillier , Eric V. Linder

With the release of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog GWTC-4.0 by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, 218 candidate detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) have been reported. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Grégoire Pierra , Alexander Papadopoulos

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 (GWs) from supermassive binary black hole (BBH) inspirals are potentially powerful standard sirens (the GW analog to standard candles) (Schutz 1986, 2002). Because these systems are well-modeled, the space-based GW…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Daniel E. Holz , Scott A. Hughes