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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 use more than 110500 galaxies from the 2dF galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) to estimate the b_J-band galaxy luminosity function at redshift z=0, taking account of evolution, the distribution of magnitude measurement errors and small…

Gravitational wave (GW) galaxy lens reconstruction is a crucial step for many GW lensing science applications. However, dark siren GW lensing (i.e. lensed GW without observed electromagnetic (EM) counterpart) suffers from similarity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-17 Jason S. C. Poon , Stefano Rinaldi , Justin Janquart , Harsh Narola , Otto A. Hannuksela

Lack of knowledge about the background expansion history of the Universe from independent observations makes it problematic to obtain a precise and accurate estimation of the Hubble constant $H_0$ from gravitational wave standard sirens,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact objects encode direct information about the luminosity distance to the binary. When paired with a redshift measurement, this enables standard-siren cosmology: a Hubble diagram can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Amanda M. Farah , Thomas A. Callister , Jose María Ezquiaga , Michael Zevin , Daniel E. Holz

Several statistics are applied to groups and galaxies in groups in the Two degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey. Firstly we estimate the luminosity functions for different subsets of galaxies in groups. The results are well fitted by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. J. Martinez , A. Zandivarez , M. E. Merchan , M. J. L. Dominguez

The gravitational wave (GW) signal from the merger of two black holes can serve as a standard sirens for cosmological inference. However, a degeneracy exists between the luminosity distance and the inclination angle between the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Jian-Dong Liu , Wen-Biao Han , Qianyun Yun , Shu-Cheng Yang

The astronomy community has at its disposal a large back catalog of public spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys that can be used for the measurement of luminosity functions. Utilizing the back catalog with new photometric surveys to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 S. E. Lake , E. L. Wright , C. -W. Tsai , A. Lam

Gravitational wave dark sirens are a powerful tool for cosmology and inference of compact object population hyperparameters. They allow for a measurement of the luminosity distance to the source, but not their redshift. Galaxy catalogues in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Charles Dalang , Bartolomeo Fiorini , Tessa Baker

We study cosmic variance in deep high redshift surveys and its influence on the determination of the luminosity function for high redshift galaxies. For several survey geometries relevant for HST and JWST instruments, we characterize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 M. Trenti , M. Stiavelli

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 waves (GWs) originated from mergers of stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs) are considered as dark sirens in cosmology since they usually do not have electromagnetic counterparts. In order to study cosmos with these events,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Muxin Liu , Chang Liu , Yi-Ming Hu , Lijing Shao , Yacheng Kang

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…

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Spectral-siren cosmology constrains the Hubble constant $H_0$ using gravitational-wave observations of compact-binary coalescences. The method combines luminosity distances inferred from the waveform with redshift information statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Alessandro Agapito , Viola De Renzis , Michele Mancarella

Gravitational waves (GWs) are signals that propagate across large distances in the Universe, and thus, they bring information on the cosmic history. GW sources are at the same time distance indicators and tracers of the matter field. Events…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Isabela S. Matos

The purpose of this work is to investigate the prospects of using the future standard siren data without redshift measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. With successful detections of gravitational wave (GW) signals an era of GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Xuheng Ding , Marek Biesiada , Xiaogang Zheng , Kai Liao , Zhengxiang Li , Zong-Hong Zhu

A new synergy between gravitational waves (GWs) and the study of the large-scale structure of the Universe is now emerging. Along this line of research, we combine simulated observations of stellar-origin black hole mergers and neutral…

We present the $R$-band luminosity function for a sample of 18678 galaxies, with average redshift $z = 0.1$, from the Las Campanas Redshift Survey. The luminosity function may be fit by a Schechter function with $M^* = -20.29 \pm 0.02 + 5…

The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations offers a whole new range of possible tests and opens up a new window which may shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In the present work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Minghui Du , Weiqiang Yang , Lixin Xu , Supriya Pan , David F. Mota