Source Redshifts from Gravitational-Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Inspiraling compact binaries as standard sirens will become an invaluable tool for cosmology when we enter the gravitational-wave detection era. However, a degeneracy in the information carried by gravitational waves between the total rest-frame mass M and the redshift z of the source implies that n...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: C. Messenger, Kentaro Takami, Sarah Gossan, Luciano Rezzolla, B. S. Sathyaprakash
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-10-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041004