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Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

On August 17, 2017 at 12:41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral. The signal, GW170817, was detected with a combined signal-to-noise ratio of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-17 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , The Virgo Collaboration

The next generation of detectors will detect gravitational waves from binary neutron stars at cosmological distances, for which around a thousand electromagnetic follow-ups may be observed per year. So far, most work devoted to the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-17 Viviane Alfradique , Miguel Quartin , Luca Amendola , Tiago Castro , Alexandre Toubiana

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves (GWs), which offer a way to explore cosmic events like binary mergers and could help resolve the Hubble Tension. The Hubble Tension refers to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-07 Rishav Laloo , Prachi Gupta , Arun Kenath

We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and light. * GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves. * The detection of a spatially coincident weak burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Raffaella Margutti , Ryan Chornock

The detection of gravitational waves (GW) with an electromagnetic counterpart enabled the first Hubble Constant $H_0$ measurement through the standard siren method. Current constraints suggest that $\sim 20-30\%$ of LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Clecio R. Bom , Antonella Palmese

As of today, we have directly detected exactly one source in both gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation, the binary neutron star merger GW170817, its associated gamma-ray burst GRB170817A, and the subsequent kilonova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 R. J. Foley , K. D. Alexander , I. Andreoni , I. Arcavi , K. Auchettl , J. Barnes , G. Baym , E. C. Bellm , A. M. Beloborodov , N. Blagorodnova , J. P. Blakeslee , P. R. Brady , M. Branchesi , J. S. Brown , N. Butler , M. Cantiello , R. Chornock , D. O. Cook , J. Cooke , D. L. Coppejans , A. Corsi , S. M. Couch , M. W. Coughlin , D. A. Coulter , P. S. Cowperthwaite , T. Dietrich , G. Dimitriadis , M. R. Drout , J. H. Elias , B. Farr , R. Fernandez , A. V. Filippenko , W. Fong , T. Fragos , D. A. Frail , W. L. Freedman , C. L. Fryer , V. Z. Golkhou , D. Hiramatsu , J. Hjorth , A. Horesh , G. Hosseinzadeh , K. Hotokezaka , D. A. Howell , T. Hung , D. O. Jones , V. Kalogera , D. Kasen , W. E. Kerzendorf , C. D. Kilpatrick , R. P. Kirshner , K. Krisciunas , J. M. Lattimer , D. Lazzati , A. J. Levan , A. I. MacFadyen , K. Maeda , I. Mandel , K. S. Mandel , B. Margalit , R. Margutti , J. McIver , B. D. Metzger , K. Mooley , T. Moriya , A. Murguia-Berthier , G. Narayan , M. Nicholl , S. Nissanke , K. Nomoto , J. M. O'Meara , R. O'Shaughnessy , E. O'Connor , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , C. Pankow , K. Paterson , D. A. Perley , R. Perna , A. L. Piro , T. A. Pritchard , E. Quataert , D. Radice , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , S. Reddy , A. Rest , A. G. Riess , C. L. Rodriguez , C. Rojas-Bravo , E. M. Rossi , S. Rosswog , M. Ruiz , S. L. Shapiro , D. H. Shoemaker , M. R. Siebert , D. M. Siegel , K. Siellez , N. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , N. B. Suntzeff , R. Surman , M. Tanaka , N. R. Tanvir , G. Terreran , S. Valenti , V. A. Villar , L. Wang , S. A. Webb , J. C. Wheeler , P. K. G. Williams , S. Woosley , M. Zaldarriaga , M. Zevin

In this work, we use the simulated gravitational wave (GW) standard siren data from the future observation of the Einstein Telescope (ET) to constrain various dark energy cosmological models, including the $\Lambda$CDM, $w$CDM, CPL,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Jing-Fei Zhang , Ming Zhang , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a powerful means for cosmological distance estimation, circumventing the systematic uncertainties associated with traditional electromagnetic (EM) indicators. This work presents a model for estimating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Trisha V , Rakesh V , Arun Kenath

On 17 August 2017, less than two years after the direct detection of gravitational radiation from the merger of two ~30 Msun black holes, a binary neutron star merger was identified as the source of a gravitational wave signal of ~100 s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-12 Elena Pian

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…

Gravitational waves observation with electromagnetic counterparts provides an approach to measure the Hubble constant which is also known as the bright siren method. Great hope has been put into this method to arbitrate the Hubble tension.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 Y. F. Du , S. X. Yi , S. N. Zhang , Shu Zhang

We consider two stable Interacting Dark Matter -- Dark Energy models and confront them against current Cosmic Microwave Background data from the \textit{Planck} satellite. We then generate luminosity distance measurements from ${\cal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Weiqiang Yang , Sunny Vagnozzi , Eleonora Di Valentino , Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , David F. Mota

The next generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors -- Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE) will have distance horizons up to $\mathcal{O}(10)$ Gpc for detecting binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. This will make them ideal for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase

The constancy of the gravitational constant $G$ is a cornerstone of the strong equivalence principle and of general relativity, yet its possible temporal variation remains a key target in tests of fundamental physics. Gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Jie Zhu , Hanlin Song , Zhenwei Lyu , Hao Li , Peixiang Ji , Jun-Chen Wang , Haobo Yan , Bo-Qiang Ma

"If one could ever prove the existence of gravitational waves, the processes responsible for their generation would probably be much more curious and interesting than even the waves themselves." (Gustav Mie, 1868 - 1957) The discovery of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-19 John Ellis

Gravitational waves from binary mergers at cosmological distances will experience weak lensing by large scale structure. This causes a (de-)magnification, $\mu$, of the wave amplitude, and a degenerate modification to the inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 Charlie T. Mpetha , Giuseppe Congedo , Andy Taylor , Martin A. Hendry

Gravitational-wave standard sirens present a novel approach for the determination of the Hubble constant. After the recent spectacular confirmation of the method thanks to GW170817 and its optical counterpart, additional standard siren…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Eleonora Di Valentino , Daniel E. Holz , Alessandro Melchiorri , Fabrizio Renzi

Gravitational waves detected by advanced ground-based detectors have allowed studying the universe in a way which is fully complementary to electromagnetic observations. As more sources are detected, it will be possible to measure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Salvatore Vitale , Chris Whittle

The independent measurement of Hubble constant with gravitational-wave standard sirens will potentially shed light on the tension between the local distance ladders and Planck experiments. Therefore, thorough understanding of the sources of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-13 Hsin-Yu Chen