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astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Accelerated inference of microlensed gravitational waves with machine learning

Marienza Caldarola, Srashti Goyal, Nihar Gupte +2

Gravitational waves (GWs) within the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA sensitivity band can be microlensed by stellar and intermediate-mass black holes, producing a frequency-dependent modulation o…

astro-ph.CO2025

Cosmo-Learn: code for learning cosmology using different methods and mock data

Reginald Christian Bernardo, Daniela Grandón, Jackson Levi Said +3

We present cosmo_learn, an open-source python-based software package designed to simulate cosmological data and perform data-driven inference using a range of modern statistical an…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Simulating a Gaussian stochastic gravitational wave background signal in pulsar timing arrays

Reginald Christian Bernardo, Kin-Wang Ng

We revisit the theoretical modeling and simulation of a Gaussian stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) signal in a pulsar timing array (PTA). We show that the correlation…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

Listening Across the Cosmic Time: Standard Sirens from Ground- and Space-Based Missions in the Next Decade

Alberto Salvarese, Hsin-Yu Chen, Alberto Mangiagli +1

Precise measurement of the Hubble parameter will enable stringent tests of the standard model for cosmology. Standard sirens, using the luminosity distances measured by gravitation…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Probing Ultralight Axion-like Dark Matter: A Pulsar Timing Arrays-Pulsar Polarization Arrays Synergy

Ximeng Li, Yonghao Liu, Zu-Cheng Chen +9

Ultralight axionlike dark matter (ALDM) is a leading candidate in the dark matter realm, characterized by its prominent wave properties on astronomical scales. Pulsar timing arrays…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Topology of Rayleigh-Levy Flights in Two Dimensions

Reginald Christian Bernardo, Stephen Appleby, Francis Bernardeau +1

Rayleigh-Lévy flights are simplified cosmological tools which capture certain essential statistical properties of the cosmic density field, including hierarchical structures in hig…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Gravitational wave lensing: probing Fuzzy Dark Matter with LISA

Shashwat Singh, Guilherme Brando, Stefano Savastano +1

Gravitational lensing is a universal phenomenon: it affects both gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic signals travelling through the gravitational field of a massive objec…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Accurate pulsar timing array residual variances and correlation of the stochastic gravitational wave background

Reginald Christian Bernardo, Kin-Wang Ng

Pulsar timing arrays have reported a compelling evidence of a nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background. However, the origin of the signal remains undetermined, largely be…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

DarkGEO: A Large-Scale Laser-Interferometric Axion Detector

Joscha Heinze, Alex Gill, Artemiy Dmitriev +8

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are leading candidates for dark matter. They are well motivated in many extensions of the Standard Model and supported by astronomical observ…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 25 cited

Searching for scalar field dark matter with LIGO

Alexandre S. Göttel, Aldo Ejlli, Kanioar Karan +4

We report on a direct search for scalar field dark matter using data from LIGO's third observing run. We analyse the coupling of size oscillations of the interferometer's beamsplit…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 24 cited

No-go guide for the Hubble tension: late-time or local-scale new physics

Lu Huang, Shao-Jiang Wang, Wang-Wei Yu

The standard model of modern cosmology might be cracked by the recent persistent hot debate on the Hubble-constant () tension, which manifests itself as the sound-horizon ($r_…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Massive black hole binaries in LISA: constraining cosmological parameters at high redshifts

Alberto Mangiagli, Chiara Caprini, Sylvain Marsat +3

One of the scientific objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is to probe the expansion of the Universe using gravitational wave observations. Indeed, as gravit…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 15 cited

Constraints on cosmologically coupled black holes from gravitational wave observations and minimal formation mass

Luca Amendola, Davi C. Rodrigues, Sumit Kumar +1

We test the possibility that the black holes (BHs) detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) may be cosmologically coupled and grow in mass proportionally to the cosmological scale factor…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 111 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter and the early Universe

J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +111

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and fir…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 11 cited

Revisiting Vainshtein Screening for fast N-body simulations

Guilherme Brando, Kazuya Koyama, Hans A. Winther

We revisit a method to incorporate the Vainshtein screening mechanism in N-body simulations proposed by R. Scoccimarro in~\cite{Scoccimarro:2009eu}. We further extend this method t…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 67 cited

Gravitational wave lensing as a probe of halo properties and dark matter

Giovanni Tambalo, Miguel Zumalacárregui, Liang Dai +1

Just like light, gravitational waves (GWs) are deflected and magnified by gravitational fields as they propagate through the Universe. However, their low frequency, phase coherence…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 16 cited

The lure of sirens: joint distance and velocity measurements with third generation detectors

Viviane Alfradique, Miguel Quartin, Luca Amendola +2

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…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 359 cited

Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Pierre Auclair, David Bacon, Tessa Baker +177

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand stochastic gravita…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

Enabling matter power spectrum emulation in beyond-CDM cosmologies with COLA

Guilherme Brando, Bartolomeo Fiorini, Kazuya Koyama +1

We compare and validate COLA (COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration) simulations against existing emulators in the literature, namely Bacco and Euclid Emulator 2. Our analysis focuses o…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

Probing Cosmology with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations using Gravitational Waves

Sumit Kumar

The third-generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the Einstein telescope (ET) or Cosmic Explorer (CE) are expected to play an important role in cosmology. With th…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 22 cited

Searching for dark-matter waves with PPTA and QUIJOTE pulsar polarimetry

Andrés Castillo, Jorge Martin-Camalich, Jorge Terol-Calvo +6

The polarization of photons emitted by astrophysical sources might be altered as they travel through a dark matter medium composed of ultra light axion-like particles (ALPs). In pa…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 247 cited

Constraints on the cosmic expansion history from GWTC-3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1676

We use 47 gravitational-wave sources from the Third LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) to estimate the Hubble parameter , including its current va…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 5 cited

Probing the large-scale structure of the universe through gravitational-wave observations

Xiaoyun Shao, Zhoujian Cao, Xilong Fan +1

The improvements in the sensitivity of the gravitational wave (GW) network enable the detection of several large redshift GW sources by third-generation GW detectors. These advance…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 9 cited

Detecting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with third generation gravitational wave observatories

Sumit Kumar, Aditya Vijaykumar, Alexander H. Nitz

We explore the possibility of detecting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) solely from gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers with third generation (3G) gra…