Late time cosmology with LISA: probing the cosmic expansion with massive black hole binary mergers as standard sirens [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02634


This paper summarises the potential of the LISA mission to constrain the expansion history of the universe using massive black hole binary mergers as gravitational wave standard sirens. After briefly reviewing the concept of standard siren, the analysis and methodologies of Ref. [1] are briefly outlined to show how LISA can be used as a cosmological probe, while a selection of results taken from Refs. [1,2] is presented in order to estimate the power of LISA in constraining cosmological parameters.

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N. Tamanini
Fri, 9 Dec 16
50/62

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables; prepared for the proceedings of the 11th International LISA Symposium