Model-independent H₀ within FLRW: Joint constraints from GWTC-3 standard sirens and strong lensing time delays

2025/03/13 by Song, Ji-Yu, Qi, Jing-Zhao, Zhang, Jing-Fei +1 · 7 citations
#Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.10346

Abstract

We use 47 gravitational-wave (GW) standard sirens from the third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog to calibrate distances in the strong gravitational lensing (SGL) system RXJ1131-1231 and constrain the Hubble constant (H₀) via the distance sum rule, without assuming a specific cosmological model. For Ω_K = 0, we obtain H₀ = 73.22^+5.95_-5.43 \rm km~\rm s^-1~\rm Mpc^-1 and H₀ = 70.40^+8.03_-5.60 \rm km~\rm s^-1~\rm Mpc^-1 by breaking the mass-sheet transform using lens galaxy's mass models and stellar kinematics, respectively. Allowing Ω_K to vary increases the central value of H₀ and reduces its precision. We find that GW dark sirens have significant potential for calibrating SGL systems, due to their relatively higher redshifts. By combining 42 binary black holes and RXJ1131-1231, we obtain an H₀ constraint with a precision approximately 40% better than the measurement from GW170817 using the Hubble law. This suggests that high-precision, model-independent H₀ measurements can be achieved with this method as the redshift range of GW dark sirens expands, even without the need for GW bright sirens.

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