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20122026
most citedA 2 per cent Hubble constant measurement from standard sirens within 5 years

430 citations · 2.5k across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Impact of eccentricity and higher-modes on neutron star-black hole parameter estimation

Snehal Tibrewal, Aasim Jan, Aaron Zimmerman +1

Detections of gravitational waves from neutron star-black hole systems provide avenues for studying extreme matter, constraining binary formation channels, and testing the nature o…

gr-qc2023★ 5 cited

Characterizing Gravitational Wave Detector Networks: From A to Cosmic Explorer

Ish Gupta, Chaitanya Afle, K. G. Arun +44

Gravitational-wave observations by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo have provided us a new tool to explore the Universe on all scales from n…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Mitigating the counterpart selection effect for standard sirens

Hsin-Yu Chen, Colm Talbot, Eve A. Chase

The disagreement in the Hubble constant measured by different cosmological probes highlights the need for a better understanding of the observations or new physics. The standard si…

astro-ph.HE2023

The LIGO HET Response (LIGHETR) Project to Discover and Spectroscopically Follow Optical Transients Associated with Neutron Star Mergers

M. J. Bustamante-Rosell, Greg Zeimann, J. Craig Wheeler +20

The LIGO HET Response (LIGHETR) project is an enterprise to follow up optical transients (OT) discovered as gravitational wave merger sources by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration (LVC).…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 39 cited

Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee

Matthew Evans, Alessandra Corsi, Chaitanya Afle +73

Gravitational-wave astronomy has revolutionized humanity's view of the universe, a revolution driven by observations that no other field can make. This white paper describes an obs…

nucl-th2023★ 87 cited

Theoretical and Experimental Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense and Hot Matter

Rajesh Kumar, Veronica Dexheimer, Johannes Jahan +57

This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results…

gr-qc2022★ 75 cited

The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy catalog approach for gravitational wave cosmology

Jonathan R. Gair, Archisman Ghosh, Rachel Gray +28

We outline the ``dark siren'' galaxy catalog method for cosmological inference using gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens, clarifying some common misconceptions in the implement…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 37 cited

Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies

Elcio Abdalla, Guillermo Franco Abellán, Amin Aboubrahim +200

In this paper we will list a few important goals that need to be addressed in the next decade, also taking into account the current discordances between the different cosmological…

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…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Impact of calibration uncertainties on Hubble constant measurements from gravitational-wave sources

Yiwen Huang, Hsin-Yu Chen, Carl-Johan Haster +3

Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of electromagnetically bright compact binary coalescences can provide an independent measurement of the Hubble constant . In order to obtain…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

Prospects to Explore High-redshift Black Hole Formation with Multi-band Gravitational Waves Observatories

Hsin-Yu Chen, Angelo Ricarte, Fabio Pacucci

The assembly of massive black holes in the early universe remains a poorly constrained open question in astrophysics. The merger and accretion of light seeds (remnants of Populatio…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 28 cited

An Infrared Search for Kilonovae with the WINTER Telescope. I. Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Danielle Frostig, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Geoffrey Mo +8

The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new 1 seeing-limited time-domain survey instrument designed for dedicated near-infrared follow-up of kilonov…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

The Effect of Mission Duration on LISA Science Objectives

Pau Amaro Seoane, Manuel Arca Sedda, Stanislav Babak +38

The science objectives of the LISA mission have been defined under the implicit assumption of a 4 yr continuous data stream. Based on the performance of LISA Pathfinder, it is now…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 14 cited

The relative contribution to heavy metals production from binary neutron star mergers and neutron star-black hole mergers

Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Francois Foucart

The origin of the heavy elements in the Universe is not fully determined. Neutron star-black hole (NSBH) and {binary neutron star} (BNS) mergers may both produce heavy elements via…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 71 cited

A Program for Multi-Messenger Standard Siren Cosmology in the Era of LIGO A+, Rubin Observatory, and Beyond

Hsin-Yu Chen, Philip S. Cowperthwaite, Brian D. Metzger +1

The most promising variation of the standard siren technique combines gravitational-wave (GW) data for binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with redshift measurements enabled by their…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 10 cited

A Standard Siren Cosmological Measurement from the Potential GW190521 Electromagnetic Counterpart ZTF19abanrhr

Hsin-Yu Chen, Carl-Johan Haster, Salvatore Vitale +2

The identification of the electromagnetic counterpart candidate ZTF19abanrhr to the binary black hole merger GW190521 opens the possibility to infer cosmological parameters from th…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 56 cited

Systematic uncertainty of standard sirens from the viewing angle of binary neutron star inspirals

Hsin-Yu Chen

The independent measurement of Hubble constant with gravitational-wave standard sirens will potentially shed light on the tension between the local distance ladders and Planck expe…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 19 cited

Searching for exotic cores with binary neutron star inspirals

Hsin-Yu Chen, Paul M. Chesler, Abraham Loeb

We study the feasibility of detecting exotic cores in merging neutron stars with ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. We focus on models with a sharp nuclear/exotic matter in…

gr-qc2019★ 202 cited

Cosmological Inference using Gravitational Wave Standard Sirens: A Mock Data Challenge

Rachel Gray, Ignacio Magaña Hernandez, Hong Qi +12

The observation of binary neutron star merger GW170817, along with its optical counterpart, provided the first constraint on the Hubble constant using gravitational wave stan…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 42 cited

Measuring the delay time distribution of binary neutron stars. II. Using the redshift distribution from third-generation gravitational wave detectors network

Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Edo Berger, Ken K. -Y. Ng +4

We investigate the ability of current and third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors to determine the delay time distribution (DTD) of binary neutron stars (BNS) through a…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited

Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Joint Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Astronomy with LIGO and LSST in the 2020's

Philip S. Cowperthwaite, Hsin-Yu Chen, Ben Margalit +4

The blossoming field of joint gravitational wave and electromagnetic (GW-EM) astronomy is one of the most promising in astronomy. The first, and only, joint GW-EM event GW170817 pr…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 21 cited

Distinguishing binary neutron star from neutron star-black hole mergers with gravitational waves

Hsin-Yu Chen, Katerina Chatziioannou

The gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two neutron stars cannot be easily differentiated from the signal produced by a comparable-mass mixed binary of a neutron star and…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 39 cited

Viewing angle of binary neutron star mergers

Hsin-Yu Chen, Salvatore Vitale, Ramesh Narayan

The joint detection of the gravitational wave (GW) GW170817 and its electromagnetic (EM) counterparts GRB170817A and kilonova AT 2017gfo has triggered extensive study of the EM emi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 112 cited

Measuring the Hubble constant with neutron star black hole mergers

Salvatore Vitale, Hsin-Yu Chen

The detection of GW170817 and the identification of its host galaxy have allowed for the first standard-siren measurement of the Hubble constant, with an uncertainty of …