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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

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…

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We present a Bayesian Stacking technique to directly measure the HI mass function (HIMF) and its evolution with redshift using galaxies formally below the nominal detection threshold. We generate galaxy samples over several sky areas given…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Hengxing Pan , Matt J. Jarvis , James R. Allison , Ian Heywood , Mario G. Santos , Natasha Maddox , Bradley S. Frank , Xi Kang

The observations of gravitational wave (GW) provide us a new probe to study the universe. GW events can be used as standard sirens if their redshifts are measured. Normally, stardard sirens can be divided into bright/dark sirens according…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 Jiming Yu , Zhengyan Liu , Xiaohu Yang , Yu Wang , Pengjie Zhang , Xin Zhang , Wen Zhao

Gravitational wave (GW) sources are an excellent probe of the luminosity distance and offer a novel measure of the Hubble constant, $H_0$. This estimation of $H_0$ from standard sirens requires an accurate estimation of the cosmological…

We use 47 gravitational-wave (GW) standard sirens from the third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog to calibrate distances in the strong gravitational lensing (SGL) system RXJ1131-1231 and constrain the Hubble constant ($H_0$) via the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Ji-Yu Song , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The advent of third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detectors opens new opportunities for multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star merger events, holding significant potential for probing the history of cosmic expansion.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Tao Han , Ze Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Modified theories of gravity predict deviations from General Relativity (GR) in the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) across cosmological distances. A key prediction is that the GW luminosity distance will vary with redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

Photometric redshifts are commonly used to measure the distribution of galaxies in large surveys. However, the demands of ongoing and future large-scale cosmology surveys place very stringent limits on the redshift performance that are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Philipp Sudek , Lucia F. de la Bella , Adam Amara , William G. Hartley

Advancements in cosmology through next-generation ground-based gravitational wave observatories will bring in a paradigm shift. We explore the pivotal role that gravitational-wave standard sirens will play in inferring cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-17 Hsin-Yu Chen , Jose María Ezquiaga , Ish Gupta

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers provide unique opportunities for cosmological inference such as standard sirens. However, the accurate determination of the luminosity distance of the event is limited by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Qianyun Yun , Wen-Biao Han , Qian Hu , Haiguang Xu

Future space-based gravity wave experiments such as the Big Bang Observatory (BBO), with their excellent projected, one sigma angular resolution, will measure the luminosity distance to a large number of gravity wave (GW) sources to high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Maryam Arabsalmani , Varun Sahni , Tarun Deep Saini

We present a new determination of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) over the redshift interval $0.25 \leq z \leq 3.75$, derived from a combination of ground-based and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging surveys. Based on a near-IR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 D. J. McLeod , R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop , F. Cullen , A. C. Carnall , K. Duncan

Gravitational Wave (GW) sources are standard sirens that provide an independent way to map the cosmic expansion history by combining with an independent redshift measurement either from an electromagnetic counterpart for a bright siren or…

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

The dark sirens method enables us to use gravitational wave events without electromagnetic counterparts as tools for cosmology and tests of gravity. Furthermore, the dark sirens analysis code gwcosmo can now robustly account for information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-23 Anson Chen , Rachel Gray , Tessa Baker

Proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors such as DECIGO and BBO will detect $\sim10^6$ neutron-star (NS) binaries and determine the luminosity distances to the binaries with high precision. Combining the luminosity distances…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kent Yagi , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Tanaka

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…

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