Authors
BP Abbott, Robert Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, Fausto Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, RX Adhikari, VB Adya, Christoph Affeldt, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, G Allen, A Allocca, MA Aloy, PA Altin, A Amato, S Anand, A Ananyeva, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, SV Angelova, S Antier, S Appert, K Arai, MC Araya, JS Areeda, M Arène, N Arnaud, SM Aronson, KG Arun, STEFANO Ascenzi, G Ashton, SM Aston, P Astone, F Aubin, P Aufmuth, K AultONeal, C Austin, V Avendano, A Avila-Alvarez, S Babak, P Bacon, F Badaracco, MKM Bader, S Bae, J Baird, PT Baker, F Baldaccini, G Ballardin, SW Ballmer, A Bals, S Banagiri, JC Barayoga, C Barbieri, SE Barclay, BC Barish, D Barker, K Barkett, S Barnum, F Barone, B Barr, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, D Barta, J Bartlett, I Bartos, R Bassiri, A Basti, M Bawaj, JC Bayley, M Bazzan, B Bécsy, M Bejger, I Belahcene, AS Bell, D Beniwal, MG Benjamin, BK Berger, G Bergmann, S Bernuzzi, CPL Berry, D Bersanetti, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, R Bhandare, J Bidler, E Biggs, IA Bilenko, SA Bilgili, G Billingsley, R Birney, O Birnholtz, S Biscans, M Bischi, S Biscoveanu, A Bisht, M Bitossi, MA Bizouard, JK Blackburn, J Blackman, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, S Bloemen, F Bobba, N Bode, M Boer, Y Boetzel, G Bogaert, F Bondu, R Bonnand, P Booker, BA Boom, R Bork, V Boschi, S Bose, V Bossilkov, J Bosveld, Y Bouffanais, A Bozzi, C Bradaschia, PR Brady, A Bramley, M Branchesi, JE Brau, M Breschi, T Briant, JH Briggs, F Brighenti, A Brillet, M Brinkmann, P Brockill, AF Brooks, J Brooks, DD Brown, S Brunett, A Buikema, T Bulik, HJ Bulten, A Buonanno, D Buskulic, C Buy, RL Byer, M Cabero
Publication date
2021/3/19
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume
909
Issue
2
Pages
218
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences allow for the direct measurement of the luminosity distance to their source. This makes them standard-distance indicators, and in conjunction with an identified host galaxy or a set of possible host galaxies, they can be used as standard sirens to construct a redshift-distance relationship and measure cosmological parameters like the Hubble constant (H0; Schutz 1986; Holz & Hughes 2005; MacLeod & Hogan 2008; Nissanke et al. 2010; Sathyaprakash et al. 2010). The GW signature from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817, along with its coincident electromagnetic (EM) transient associated with the host galaxy NGC4993, led to a first standard-siren measurement of H0 (Abbott et al. 2017a). This measurement is independent of other state-of-the-art measurements of H0, and in particular, independent of the cosmic distance ladder used to …
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