2011

Hubble without the Hubble: cosmology using advanced gravitational-wave detectors alone

Taylor, Stephen R., Gair, Jonathan R., Mandel, Ilya

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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.

Gravitational-wave observations with a network of detectors will permit a direct, independent measurement of the distance to the source systems.
If the redshift of the source is known, these inspiraling double-neutron-star binary systems can be used as standard sirens to extract cosmological information.
Unfortunately, the redshift and the system chirp mass are degenerate in GW observations.

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