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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…

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Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences have matured into a robust cosmological probe, providing self-calibrated luminosity distance measurements independent of any cosmic distance ladder, hence the term "standard…

With the growing number of gravitational-wave detections and the advent of large galaxy redshift surveys, a new era in cosmology is unfolding. This study explores the synergies between gravitational waves and galaxy surveys to jointly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Nicola Borghi , Michele Mancarella , Michele Moresco , Matteo Tagliazucchi , Francesco Iacovelli , Andrea Cimatti , Michele Maggiore

Golden dark sirens - exceptionally well-localized gravitational-wave (GW) sources without electromagnetic counterparts - offer a powerful route to precision measurements of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, with next-generation (XG) detectors.…

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In this paper we study the use of cross-correlations between multiple gravitational wave (GW) data streams for detecting long-lived periodic signals. Cross-correlation searches between data from multiple detectors have traditionally been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Badri Krishnan , Himan Mukhopadhyay , John T. Whelan

From catalogs of gravitational-wave transients, the population-level properties of their sources and the formation channels of merging compact binaries can be constrained. However, astrophysical conclusions can be biased by misspecification…

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Gravitational-wave (GW) radiation from a coalescing compact binary is a standard siren as the luminosity distance of each event can be directly measured from the amplitude of the signal. One possibility to constrain cosmology using the GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Hang Yu , Brian Seymour , Yijun Wang , Yanbei Chen

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

Knowledge of the shape of the mass spectrum of compact objects can be used to help break the degeneracy between the mass and redshift of the gravitational wave (GW) sources, and thus can be used to infer cosmological parameters in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 S. Mastrogiovanni , K. Leyde , C. Karathanasis , E. Chassande-Mottin , D. A. Steer , J. Gair , A. Ghosh , R. Gray , S. Mukherjee , S. Rinaldi

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 comprehensive forecast for cosmological constraints using the joint observation of the cosmic shear signal from the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) and the clustering signal from the next-generation gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Pengfei Su , Yan Gong , Qi Xiong , Dingao Hu , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Xuelei Chen

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

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

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,…

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Space-borne gravitational wave detectors like TianQin are expected to detect GW signals emitted by the mergers of massive black hole binaries. Luminosity distance information can be obtained from GW observations, and one can perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Liang-Gui Zhu , Yi-Ming Hu , Hai-Tian Wang , Jian-dong Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li , Martin Hendry , Jianwei Mei

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new window to test the fundamental nature of gravity. We present constraints on the nonstandard propagation of GWs using the spectral siren method applied to binary black hole (BBH)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Zu-Cheng Chen , Lang Liu

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

Gravitational-wave (GW) detectors can contribute to the measurement of cosmological parameters and to testing the dark-energy sector of alternatives to $\Lambda$CDM, by using standard sirens. In this paper we focus on binary neutron stars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Enis Belgacem , Yves Dirian , Stefano Foffa , Eric J. Howell , Michele Maggiore , Tania Regimbau

Spectral-sirens inference enables the extraction of cosmological parameters from gravitational-wave data alone, without electromagnetic counterparts or galaxy catalogs. We introduce new parametric mass functions for the binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Tom Bertheas , Vasco Gennari , Danièle Steer , Nicola Tamanini

Crosscorrelation of the outputs of two Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors has recently been proposed [1] as a method for detecting statistical association between GWs and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Unfortunately, the method can be effectively…

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