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astro-ph.CO2021★ 37 cited

A new way to explore cosmological tensions using gravitational waves and strong gravitational lensing

Meng-Di Cao, Jie Zheng, Jing-Zhao Qi +2

In recent years, a crisis in the standard cosmology has been caused by inconsistencies in the measurements of some key cosmological parameters, Hubble constant and cosmic cur…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 38 cited

Testing primordial black hole and measuring the Hubble constant with multiband gravitational-wave observations

Lang Liu, Xing-Yu Yang, Zong-Kuan Guo +1

There exist two kinds of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds associated with the primordial curvature perturbations. One is called induced gravitational wave due to the nonli…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 2 cited

Soft Scattering Evaporation of Dark Matter Subhalos by Inner Galactic Gases

Xiao-jun Bi, Yu Gao, Mingjie Jin +2

The large gap between a galactic dark matter subhalo's velocity and its own gravitational binding velocity creates the situation that small subhalos can be evaporated before dark m…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 15 cited

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory: Forecast constraints on the cosmic curvature with LSST strong lenses

Shuo Cao, Tonghua Liu, Marek Biesiada +3

In this paper, we aim at using the DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (DECIGO), a future Japanese space gravitational-wave antenna sensitive to frequency rang…

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★ 15 cited

Toward a direct measurement of the cosmic acceleration: the first preparation with FAST

Chang-Zhi Lu, Kang Jiao, Tingting Zhang +2

Damped Lyman- Absorber(DLA) of HI 21cm system is an ideal probe to directly measure cosmic acceleration in real-time cosmology via Sandage-Loeb(SL) test. During short observatio…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 4 cited

Numerical implementation of the Cubic Galileon model in PINOCCHIO

Yanling Song, Chiara Moretti, Pierluigi Monaco +1

We present a perturbative treatment of nonlinear galaxy clustering in the context of the cubic Galileon modified gravity model, in terms of 2nd order Lagrangian Perturbation theory…

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★ 39 cited

Revisiting the cosmic distance duality relation with machine learning reconstruction methods: the combination of HII galaxies and ultra-compact radio quasars

Tonghua Liu, Shuo Cao, Sixuan Zhang +3

In this paper, we carry out an assessment of cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) based on the latest observations of HII galaxies acting as standard candles and ultra-compact s…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 83 cited

Constraining cosmological phase transitions with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Xiao Xue, Ligong Bian, Jing Shu +15

A cosmological first-order phase transition is expected to produce a stochastic gravitational wave background. If the phase transition temperature is on the MeV scale, the power sp…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 33 cited

Search for lensing signatures from the latest fast radio burst observations and constraints on the abundance of primordial black holes

Huan Zhou, Zhengxiang Li, Kai Liao +5

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) form a part of dark matter has been considered for a long time but poorly constrained over a wide mass range. Fast radio bursts (…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 25 cited

Comparing the scalar-field dark energy models with recent observations

Tengpeng Xu, Yun Chen, Lixin Xu +1

We investigate the general properties of a class of scalar-field dark energy models (i.e., CDM models) which behave like cosmological trackers at early times. Particularly, we c…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 44 cited

Searching for Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background in the International Pulsar Timing Array Second Data Release

Zu-Cheng Chen, Yu-Mei Wu, Qing-Guo Huang

We search for isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) in the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release. By modeling the SGWB as a power-law, we find v…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 12 cited

Probing the time variation of fine structure constant using galaxy clusters and quintessence model

Zhi-E Liu, Wen-Fei Liu, Tong-Jie Zhang +2

We explore a possible time variation of the fine structure constant () using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect measurements of galaxy clusters along with their X-r…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 10 cited

Constraining cosmological parameters from strong lensing with DECIGO and B-DECIGO sources

Shaoqi Hou, Xi-Long Fan, Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational lensing has long been used to measure or constrain cosmology models. Although the lensing effect of gravitational waves has not been observed by LIGO/Virgo, it is exp…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 20 cited

GW200105 and GW200115 are compatible with a scenario of primordial black hole binary coalescences

Sai Wang, Zhi-Chao Zhao

Two gravitational wave events, i.e. GW200105 and GW200115, were observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors recently. In this work, we show that they can be explained by a sc…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 24 cited

Consistency testing for invariance of the speed of light at different redshifts: the newest results from strong lensing and type Ia supernovae observations

Tonghua Liu, Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada +3

The invariance of the speed of light in the distant universe has profound significance for fundamental physics. In this paper, we propose a new model-independent method to test the…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 6 cited

Cosmological consequences of a scalar field with oscillating equation of state. III. Unifying inflation with dark energy and small tensor-to-scalar ratio

S. X. Tian, Zong-Hong Zhu

We investigate the inflationary consequences of the oscillating dark energy model proposed by Tián [\href{https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.063531}{Phys. Rev. D {\bf 101}, 06353…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 17 cited

Constraints on the abundance of supermassive primordial black holes from lensing of compact radio sources

Huan Zhou, Yujie Lian, Zhengxiang Li +2

The possibility that primordial black holes (PBHs) form a part of dark matter has been considered over a wide mass range from the Planck mass () to the level of the…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 33 cited

Influence of the Bounds of the Hyperparameters on the Reconstruction of Hubble Constant with Gaussian Process

Wen Sun, Kang Jiao, Tong-Jie Zhang

The cosmological model-independent method Gaussian process (GP) has been widely used in the reconstruction of Hubble constant , and the hyperparameters inside GP influence the…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 42 cited

Probing modified gravity theories with multiple measurements of high-redshift quasars

Yujie Lian, Shuo Cao, Marek Biesiada +3

In this paper, we quantify the ability of multiple measurements of high-redshift quasars (QSOs) to constrain several theories of modified gravity, including the Dvali-Gabadadze-Por…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 18 cited

Constraining the anisotropy of the Universe with the X-ray and UV fluxes of quasars

Dong Zhao, Jun-Qing Xia

We test the anisotropy in the Finslerian cosmological model with the X-ray and ultraviolet (UV) fluxes of 808 quasars. The dipole amplitude is and t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 85 cited

Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1627

We present a search for dark photon dark matter that could couple to gravitational-wave interferometers using data from Advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run. To perform th…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 11 cited

Reconstruction of Baryon Fraction in Intergalactic Medium through Dispersion Measurements of Fast Radio Bursts

Ji-Ping Dai, Jun-Qing Xia

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the total column density of free electrons in the intergalactic medium (IGM) along the path of propagation though the dispersion measures (DMs) which…