Short GRB and binary black hole standard sirens as a probe of dark energy

Journal Article · Fri Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2006 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.74.063006· OSTI ID:20871171

Dalal, Neal ^[1]; Holz, Daniel E ^[2]; Hughes, Scott A ^[3]; Jain, Bhuvnesh ^[4]

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1. CITA, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3H8 (Canada)
2. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
3. Dept. of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
4. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (United States)

Observations of the gravitational radiation from well-localized, inspiraling compact-object binaries can measure absolute source distances with high accuracy. When coupled with an independent determination of redshift through an electromagnetic counterpart, these standard sirens can provide an excellent probe of the expansion history of the Universe and the dark energy. Short {gamma}-ray bursts, if produced by merging neutron star binaries, would be standard sirens with known redshifts detectable by ground-based gravitational wave (GW) networks such as Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), Virgo, and Australian International Gravitational Observatory (AIGO). Depending upon the collimation of these GRBs, the measurement of about 10 GW-GRB events (corresponding to about 1 yr of observation with an advanced GW detector network and an all-sky GRB monitor) can measure the Hubble constant h to {approx}2-3%. When combined with measurement of the absolute distance to the last scattering surface of the cosmic microwave background, this determines the dark energy equation of state parameter w to {approx}9%. Similarly, supermassive binary black hole inspirals will be standard sirens detectable by Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Depending upon the precise redshift distribution, {approx}100 sources could measure w at the {approx}4% level.

• OSTI ID: 20871171
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 74, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.063006; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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EQUATIONS OF STATE
EXPANSION
GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
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MONITORS
NEUTRON STARS
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
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RELICT RADIATION
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