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Understanding the nature and evolution of dark energy (DE) is a central challenge in modern cosmology. In this work, we explore the constraining power of bright standard sirens -- gravitational wave (GW) events with electromagnetic…

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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

We investigate the constraint ability of the gravitational wave (GW) as the standard siren on the cosmological parameters by using the third-generation gravitational wave detector: the Einstein Telescope. We simulate the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang

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

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

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

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences are standard sirens that provide a direct measure of the source's luminosity distance, enabling an independent measurement of the Hubble constant (H0). While a bright siren -- a GW…

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

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

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

Gravitational-wave (GW) events are generally believed to originate in galaxies and can thus serve, like galaxies, as tracers of the universe's large-scale structure. In GW observations, waveform analysis provides direct measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ya-Nan Du , Ji-Yu Song , Yichao Li , Shang-Jie Jin , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new avenue to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) using the ongoing and upcoming GW detectors by measuring the redshift evolution of the effective Planck mass proposed by several modified theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

We examine the impact of using photometric redshifts for studying the evolution of both the global galaxy luminosity function (LF) and that for different galaxy types. To this end we compare LFs obtained using photometric redshifts from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 B. H. F. Ramos , P. S. Pellegrini , C. Benoist , L. N. da Costa , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , R. L. C. Ogando , F. de Simoni , A. A. Mesquita

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 (GW) observations are expected to serve as a powerful and independent probe of the expansion history of the universe. By providing direct and calibration-free measurements of luminosity distances through waveform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Shang-Jie Jin , Ji-Yu Song , Tian-Yang Sun , Si-Ren Xiao , He Wang , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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

Local distance indicators such as standard sirens, in combination with spectroscopic redshift measurements of their host galaxies, allow us to estimate the present-day expansion rate of the Universe parameterised by Hubble's constant, H_0.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-11 Chris Blake , Ryan J. Turner

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microwave background or supernovae standard candles. Here we focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-15 Konstantin Leyde , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Danièle A. Steer , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Christos Karathanasis

In this work, using the Gaussian process, we explore the potentiality of future gravitational wave (GW) measurements to probe cosmic opacity at high redshifts through comparing its opacity-free luminosity distance (LD) with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Xiangyun Fu , Jianfei Yang , Zhaoxia Chen , Lu Zhou , Jun Chen