A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo
Authors
Abbott, BP
Abbott, R
Abbott, TD
Abraham, S
Acernese, F
Ackley, K
Adams, C
Adhikari, RX
Adya, VB
Affeldt, C
Agatsuma, K
Aggarwal, N
Aguiar, OD
Aiello, L
Ain, A
Ajith, P
Allen, G
Allocca, A
Aloy, MA
Altin, PA
Amato, A
Anand, S
Ananyeva, A
Anderson, SB
Anderson, WG
Angelova, SV
Antier, S
Appert, S
Arai, K
Araya, MC
Areeda, JS
Ar ne, M
Arnaud, N
Aronson, SM
Arun, KG
Ascenzi, S
Ashton, G
Aston, SM
Astone, P
Aubin, F
Aufmuth, P
Aultoneal, K
Austin, C
Avendano, V
Avila-Alvarez, A
Babak, S
Bacon, P
Badaracco, F
Bader, MKM
Bae, S
Baird, J
Baker, PT
Baldaccini, F
Ballardin, G
Ballmer, SW
Bals, A
Banagiri, S
Barayoga, JC
Barbieri, C
Barclay, SE
Barish, BC
Barker, D
Barkett, K
Barnum, S
Barone, F
Barr, B
Barsotti, L
Barsuglia, M
Barta, D
Bartlett, J
Bartos, I
Bassiri, R
Basti, A
Bawaj, M
Bayley, JC
Bazzan, M
Bécsy, B
Bejger, M
Belahcene, I
Bell, AS
Beniwal, D
Benjamin, MG
Berger, BK
Bergmann, G
Bernuzzi, S
Berry, CPL
Bersanetti, D
Bertolini, A
Betzwieser, J
Bhandare, R
Bidler, J
Biggs, E
Bilenko, IA
Bilgili, SA
Billingsley, G
Birney, R
Birnholtz, O
Biscans, S
Bischi, M
Publication Date
2021-03Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
ISSN
0004-637X
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Volume
909
Issue
2
Language
en
Type
Article
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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., et al. (2021). A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical Journal, 909 (2) https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abdcb7
Abstract
This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant
($H_0$) using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the
Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector network. The presence of the transient
electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star GW170817 led to the
first standard-siren measurement of $H_0$. Here we additionally use binary
black hole detections in conjunction with galaxy catalogs and report a joint
measurement. Our updated measurement is $H_0 = 68.7^{+17.0}_{-7.8}$ km/s/Mpc
(68.3\% of the highest density posterior interval with a flat-in-log prior)
which is an improvement by a factor of 1.04 (about 4\%) over the GW170817-only
value of $68.7^{+17.5}_{-8.3}$ km/s/Mpc. A significant additional contribution
currently comes from GW170814, a loud and well-localized detection from a part
of the sky thoroughly covered by the Dark Energy Survey. With numerous
detections anticipated over the upcoming years, an exhaustive understanding of
other systematic effects are also going to become increasingly important. These
results establish the path to cosmology using gravitational-wave observations
with and without transient electromagnetic counterparts.
Keywords
Article, 310 Galaxies and Cosmology, Gravitational wave astronomy, Hubble constant
Identifiers
apjabdcb7, abdcb7
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abdcb7
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332549
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