Measuring the Hubble constant using strongly lensed gravitational wave signals

Abstract

The measurement of the Hubble constant H 0 plays an important role in the study of cosmology. In this work, we propose a new method to constrain the Hubble constant using the strongly lensed gravitational wave (SLGW) signals. Through reparameterization, we find that the lensed waveform is sensitive to the H 0. Assuming the scenario that no electromagnetic counterpart of the GW source can be identified, our method can still give meaningful constraints on the H 0 with the information of the lens redshift. We then apply Fisher information matrix and Markov Chain Monte Carlo to evaluate the potential of this method. For the space-based GW detector, TianQin, the H 0 can be constrained within a relative error of ∼ 1% with a single SLGW event.

Detecting the gravitational wave memory effect with TianQin

“…TianQin is capable of detecting the GW signals from MB-HBs, providing the potential to constrain the cosmological parameters [24], measure the Hubble constant by gravitational lensing [25,26] and test general relativity [27][28][29][30]. Furthermore, the potential for high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of signals of MBHBs on TianQin, opens up the possibility to study the strong-field gravitational effects.…”