2019•Physical review. D/Physical review. D.Open access

Future constraints on dynamical dark-energy using gravitational-wave standard sirens

Minghui Du, Weiqiang Yang, Lixin Xu, Supriya Pan, David Fonseca Mota

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The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations offers a whole new range of possible tests and opens up a new window that may shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In the present work we investigate how future gravitational-wave data could help to constrain different dynamical dark energy models. In particular, we perform cosmological forecastings of a class of well-known and most used dynamical dark energy models using the third-generation gravitational wave detector, the Einstein Telescope. We have considered 1000 simulated GW events in order to constrain the parameter space of the dynamical dark energy models. Our analyses show that the inclusion of the GW data from the Einstein Telescope significantly improves the parameter space of the dynamical dark energy models compared to their constraints extracted from the standard cosmological probes, namely, the cosmic microwave observations, baryon acoustic oscillations distance measurements, supernove type Ia, and the Hubble parameter measurements.

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The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations offers a whole new range of possible tests and opens up a new window that may shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In the present work we investigate how future gravitational-wave data could help to constrain different dynamical dark energy models. In particular, we perform cosmological forecastings of a class of well-known and most used dynamical dark energy models using the third-generation gravitational wave detector, the Einstein Telescope. We have considered 1000 simulated GW events in order to constrain the parameter space of the dynamical dark energy models. Our analyses show that the inclusion of the GW data from the Einstein Telescope significantly improves the parameter space of the dynamical dark energy models compared to their constraints extracted from the standard cosmological probes, namely, the cosmic microwave observations, baryon acoustic oscillations distance measurements, supernove type Ia, and the Hubble parameter measurements.

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The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations offers a whole new range of possible tests and opens up a new window that may shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In the present work we investigate how future gravitational-wave data could help to constrain different dynamical dark energy models. In particular, we perform cosmological forecastings of a class of well-known and most used dynamical dark energy models using the third-generation gravitational wave detector, the Einstein Telescope. We have considered 1000 simulated GW events in order to constrain the parameter space of the dynamical dark energy models. Our analyses show that the inclusion of the GW data from the Einstein Telescope significantly improves the parameter space of the dynamical dark energy models compared to their constraints extracted from the standard cosmological probes, namely, the cosmic microwave observations, baryon acoustic oscillations distance measurements, supernove type Ia, and the Hubble parameter measurements.

Key concepts: Physics, Dark energy, Gravitational wave, Cosmic microwave background, LIGO, Einstein Telescope, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Dark matter

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