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most citedCosmology in the dark: On the importance of source population models for gravitational-wave cosmology

128 citations · 443 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmology from Synergies Between SKAO Surveys and Gravitational Wave Observations

Tessa Baker, Alberto Colombo, Steven Cunnington +11

Both radio surveys and gravitational wave observations have the potential to probe unprecedented volumes in the Universe with systematics independent of existing cosmological probe…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 5 cited

Cosmic Cartography II: completing galaxy catalogs for gravitational-wave cosmology

Konstantin Leyde, Tessa Baker, Wolfgang Enzi

The dark siren method exploits the complementarity between gravitational-wave binary coalescence signals and galaxy catalogs originating from the same regions of space. However, al…

gr-qc2025★ 4 cited

A Bright Future? Prospects for Cosmological Tests of GR with Multimessenger Gravitational Wave Events

Elena Colangeli, Konstantin Leyde, Tessa Baker

Further bright sirens - gravitational wave events with electromagnetic counterparts - are keenly awaited, but proving elusive. The exceptional event GW170817 had a profound impact…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Blinded Mock Data Challenge for Gravitational-Wave Cosmology-I: Assessing the Robustness of Methods Using Binary Black Holes Mass Spectrum

Aman Agarwal, Ulyana Dupletsa, Konstantin Leyde +18

Gravitational Wave (GW) sources are standard sirens that provide an independent way to map the cosmic expansion history by combining with an independent redshift measurement either…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 10 cited

Cosmic Cartography: Bayesian reconstruction of the galaxy density informed by large-scale structure

Konstantin Leyde, Tessa Baker, Wolfgang Enzi

The dark sirens method combines gravitational waves and catalogs of galaxies to constrain the cosmological expansion history, merger rates and mass distributions of compact objects…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 5 cited

Joint cosmological and gravitational-wave population inference using dark sirens and galaxy catalogues

Rachel Gray, Freija Beirnaert, Christos Karathanasis +11

In the absence of numerous gravitational-wave detections with confirmed electromagnetic counterparts, the "dark siren" method has emerged as a leading technique of gravitational-wa…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

ICAROGW: A python package for inference of astrophysical population properties of noisy, heterogeneous and incomplete observations

Simone Mastrogiovanni, Grégoire Pierra, Stéphane Perriès +6

We present icarogw 2.0, a pure CPU/GPU python code developed to infer astrophysical and cosmological population properties of noisy, heterogeneous, and incomplete observations. ica…

astro-ph.CO2023

A novel approach to infer population and cosmological properties with gravitational waves standard sirens and galaxy surveys

Simone Mastrogiovanni, Danny Laghi, Rachel Gray +7

Gravitational wave (GW) sources at cosmological distances can be used to probe the expansion rate of the Universe. GWs directly provide a distance estimation of the source but no d…

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…

gr-qc2022★ 18 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…

gr-qc2022★ 60 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…

gr-qc2022★ 4 cited

Cosmology in the dark: How compact binaries formation impact the gravitational-waves cosmological measurements

S. Mastrogiovanni, K. Leyde, C. Karathanasis +7

Information about the mass spectrum of compact stars can be used to infer cosmological parameters from gravitational waves (GW) in the absence of redshift measurements obtained fro…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO ins…

gr-qc2022

Current and future constraints on cosmology and modified gravitational wave friction from binary black holes

Konstantin Leyde, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Danièle A. Steer +2

In this proceedings, we are interested in dark gravitational wave standard sirens and their use for cosmology and for constraining modified gravity theories. Due to the extra frict…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +486

Sources of geophysical noise (such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes) or of anthropogenic noise impact ground-based gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, causing transient…

gr-qc2022★ 49 cited

Current and future constraints on cosmology and modified gravitational wave friction from binary black holes

Konstantin Leyde, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Danièle A. Steer +2

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens are well-established probes with which one can measure cosmological parameters, and are complementary to other probes like the cosmic microw…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 18 cited

A window for cosmic strings

Pierre Auclair, Konstantin Leyde, Danièle A. Steer

Particle emission, in addition to gravitational radiation from cosmic string loops, affects the resulting loop distribution and hence the corresponding observational consequences o…

gr-qc2021★ 128 cited

Cosmology in the dark: On the importance of source population models for gravitational-wave cosmology

S. Mastrogiovanni, K. Leyde, C. Karathanasis +7

Knowledge of the shape of the mass spectrum of compact objects can be used to help break the degeneracy between the mass and redshift of the gravitational wave (GW) sources, and th…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 36 cited

Gravitational wave observations, distance measurement uncertainties, and cosmology

E. Chassande-Mottin, K. Leyde, S. Mastrogiovanni +1

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries, together with an associated electromagnetic counterpart, are ideal probes of cosmological models. As demonstrated with…