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In the third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detector era, the multi-messenger GW observation for binary neutron star (BNS) merger events can exert great impacts on exploring the cosmic expansion history. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Tao Han , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-18 João Ferri , Ian L. Tashiro , L. Raul Abramo , Isabela Matos , Miguel Quartin , Riccardo Sturani

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

During the next decade, gravitational waves will be observed from hundreds of binary inspiral events. When the redshifts of the host galaxies are known, these events can be used as `standard sirens', sensitive to the expansion rate of the…

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

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

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

Detection of gravitational waves produced by merger of binary compact objects could provide an independent way for measuring the luminosity distance to the gravitational-wave burst source, indicating that gravitational-wave observation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Xuan-Neng Zhang , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Gravitational wave sources act as absolute distance indicators, making them powerful probes of the present-day expansion rate of the Universe, $H_0$. The cross-correlation method combines gravitational wave events with galaxy catalogues to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Madeline L. Cross-Parkin , Cullan Howlett , Leonardo Giani , Chris Blake , Tamara M. Davis

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

In this short paper, we investigate the impact of selecting only a subset of bright galaxies to provide redshift information for a dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$. Employing gravitational-wave observations from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Khuzaifa Naveed , Cezary Turski , Archisman Ghosh

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 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

Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries are known to be an excellent absolute distance indicator, yet it is unclear whether electromagnetic counterparts of these events are securely identified for measuring their redshifts,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Masamune Oguri

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 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

Lensed gravitational wave (GW) events are expected to be powerful new probes of cosmology, contingent on redshift measurement by electromagnetic observations. Host galaxy identification is thus crucial but challenging due to poor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhiwei Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu , Xiao Guo

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