Quantifying effects of inhomogeneities and curvature on gravitational wave standard siren measurements of $H(z)$

Abstract

For a flat $\Lambda$CDM universe, the dipole of the luminosity distance can be utilized to measure the Hubble parameter. It is here shown that this is not the case in more general settings where curvature and cosmic backreaction is permitted. This implies that a discordance between $H(z)$ measurements obtained using such dipole luminosity distance data and "true"/actual $H(z)$ data obtained from e.g. cosmic chronometers is a signal of curvature and/or cosmic backreaction. \newline\indent By considering mock future gravitational wave measurements of the Hubble parameter obtained through the dipole luminosity distance, it is shown that already a $1\%$ curvature could in principle just barely show up in the determination. However, for realistic mock data generation using models with as much as 5 \% curvature, parameter estimates do not yield reliable measures of inconsistency between the false $H(z)$ measurements and true measurements of $H(z)$. At the same time, cosmic backreaction is hard to detect even if it makes up $10\%$ of the "energy budget" in the current universe, even when considering a highly idealized situation with low errors. The results concerning backreaction are based on specific "scaling solutions" to the backreaction problem and the study shows that the possibility of detecting a signal of backreaction through the dipole of the luminosity distance depends strongly on the particular backreaction model.

arXiv comment12 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in PRD. v2: Updated reference list and fixed minor typos in text. No changes to results or conclusions

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