31 research outputs found
Cosmography using strongly lensed gravitational waves from binary black holes
Third generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect
millions of binary black hole (BBH) mergers during their operation period. A
small fraction of them () will be strongly lensed by intervening
galaxies and clusters, producing multiple observable copies of the GW signals.
The expected number of lensed events and the distribution of the time delay
between lensed events depend on the cosmology. We develop a Bayesian analysis
method for estimating cosmological parameters from the detected number of
lensed events and their time delay distribution. The expected constraints are
comparable to that obtained from other cosmological measurements, but probing a
different redshift regime () that is not explored by other probes.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures (including supplementary material
Waltzing binaries: Probing line-of-sight acceleration of merging compact objects with gravitational waves
Line-of-sight acceleration of a compact binary coalescence (CBC) event would
modulate the shape of the gravitational waves (GWs) it produces with respect to
the corresponding non-accelerated CBC. Such modulations could be indicative of
its astrophysical environment. We investigate the prospects of detecting this
acceleration in future observing runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network, as well
as in next-generation (XG) detectors and the proposed DECIGO. We place the
first observational constraints on this acceleration, for putative binary
neutron star mergers GW170817 and GW190425. We find no evidence of
line-of-sight acceleration in these events at confidence. Prospective
constraints for the fifth observing run of the LIGO at A+ sensitivity suggest
that accelerations for typical BNSs could be constrained with a precision of
, assuming a signal-to-noise ratio of .
These improve to in XG detectors, and in DECIGO. We also interpret these constraints
in the context of mergers around supermassive black holes.Comment: Accepted to Ap