2013

Host redshifts from gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star mergers

Messenger, Chris, Takami, Kentaro, Gossan, Sarah et al.

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Inspiralling compact binaries as standard sirens will soon become an invaluable tool for cosmology when advanced interferometric gravitational-wave detectors begin their observations in the coming years.

However, a degeneracy in the information carried by gravitational waves between the total rest-frame mass $M$ and the redshift $z$ of the source implies that neither can be directly extracted from the signal, but only the combination $M(1+z)$, the redshifted mass.
Recent work has shown that for binary neutron star systems, a tidal correction to the gravitational-wave phase in the late-inspiral signal that depends on the rest-frame source mass could be used to break the mass-redshift degeneracy.
We propose here to use the signature encoded in the post-merger signal to deduce the redshift to the source.

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