Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Precision cosmology from future lensed gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals

  • Kai Liao,
  • Xi-Long Fan,
  • Xuheng Ding,
  • Marek Biesiada,
  • Zong-Hong Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01152-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Gravitational wave sources can be used as cosmological probes through a direct distance luminosity relation. Here, the authors demonstrate that the time delay between lensed gravitational wave signals and their electromagnetic counterparts can reduce the uncertainty in the Hubble constant.