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A milestone of multi-messenger astronomy has been achieved with the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger accompanied by observations of several associated electromagnetic counterparts. Joint observations can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Chris Pankow , Eve A. Chase , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vassiliki Kalogera

Gravitational wave standard sirens offer a promising avenue for cosmological inference, particularly in measuring the expansion history of the universe. Traditionally, bright sirens require an electromagnetic counterpart to determine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Ignacio Magaña Hernandez , Antonella Palmese

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

As is well known, gravitational wave detections of coalescing binaries are standard sirens, allowing a measurement of source distance by gravitational wave means alone. In this paper we explore the analogue of this capability for continuous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 M. Sieniawska , D. I. Jones

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) directly measure the luminosity distance to the merger, which, when combined with an independent measurement of the source's redshift, provides a novel probe of cosmology. The proposed next generation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Christine Ye , Maya Fishbach

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

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

The first observation of a gravitational wave (GW) and a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) emitted by the same binary neutron star (BNS) merger officially opened the field of GW multimessenger astronomy. In this paper, we define and address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Leonardo Iampieri , Simone Mastrogiovanni , Francesco Pannarale

We investigate a novel approach to measuring the Hubble constant using gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binaries by exploiting the narrowness of the distribution of masses of the underlying neutron-star population.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel

The propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) at cosmological distances offers a new way to test the gravitational interaction at the largest scales. Many modified theories of gravity, usually introduced to explain the observed acceleration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Maxence Corman , Abhirup Ghosh , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Martin A. Hendry , Sylvain Marsat , Nicola Tamanini

This chapter introduces gravitational wave cosmology, focusing on the use of gravitational waves as standard sirens to probe the expansion history of the Universe. It presents and explains the methodologies behind bright and dark siren…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Grégoire Pierra , Simone Mastrogiovanni

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

The gravitational waves from compact binary systems are viewed as a standard siren to probe the evolution of the universe. This paper summarizes the potential and ability to use the gravitational waves to constrain the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang

Joint gravitational-wave (GW) and $\gamma$-ray burst (GRB) observations are among the best prospects for standard siren cosmology. However, the strong selection effect for the coincident GRB detection, which is possible only for sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 Michele Mancarella , Francesco Iacovelli , Stefano Foffa , Niccolò Muttoni , Michele Maggiore

Alternative theories of gravity predict modifications in the propagation of gravitational waves (GW) through space-time. One of the smoking-gun predictions of such theories is the change in the GW luminosity distance to GW sources as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-08 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Joseph Silk

With the detection of gravitational wave (GW) GW170817 and its associated electromagnetic (EM) counterparts from a binary neutron star (NS) merger, the "standard siren" method for Hubble-constant measurements is expected to play a role in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Zoheyr Doctor

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries, together with an associated electromagnetic counterpart, are ideal probes of cosmological models. As demonstrated with GW170817, such multimessenger observations allow one to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 E. Chassande-Mottin , K. Leyde , S. Mastrogiovanni , D. A. Steer

The multi-messenger observation of GW170817 enabled the first historic measurement of the Hubble constant via a standard siren, so-called in analogy to standard candles that enabled the measurement of the luminosity distance versus redshift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-29 Josiel Mendonça , Riccardo Sturani

In this paper, we investigate the expected constraints on the Hubble constant from the gravitational-wave standard sirens, in a cosmological-model-independent way. In the framework of the well-known Hubble law, the GW signal from each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sixuan Zhang , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng , Yujie Lian