The Targeted Standard Siren Cosmology with Pulsar Timing Arrays
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| author | Sardana, Shubhit Goncharov, Boris Tremblay, Jacob Cardinal |
| author_facet | Sardana, Shubhit Goncharov, Boris Tremblay, Jacob Cardinal |
| contents | The sky localisation of about $10$ to $100~\text{deg}^2$, which is expected to be achieved in all-sky blind searches for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments, has long been posed as a prohibitive factor in utilising these sources as standard sirens for precision cosmology. We propose a solution to this problem, which makes use of targeted searches rather than all-sky blind searches for SMBHBs. Using our simulated data informed by current PTA observations, we show that the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) alone could infer the Hubble constant with a precision of 2~km/s/Mpc. Such precision in an independent cosmological probe could provide decisive support in the resolution of the Hubble tension. We demonstrate the application of our method to several simultaneously observed SMBHBs, as well as the method's robustness against confusion between the host galaxies of SMBHB sources in realistic observing scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | The Targeted Standard Siren Cosmology with Pulsar Timing Arrays Sardana, Shubhit Goncharov, Boris Tremblay, Jacob Cardinal Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology The sky localisation of about $10$ to $100~\text{deg}^2$, which is expected to be achieved in all-sky blind searches for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments, has long been posed as a prohibitive factor in utilising these sources as standard sirens for precision cosmology. We propose a solution to this problem, which makes use of targeted searches rather than all-sky blind searches for SMBHBs. Using our simulated data informed by current PTA observations, we show that the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) alone could infer the Hubble constant with a precision of 2~km/s/Mpc. Such precision in an independent cosmological probe could provide decisive support in the resolution of the Hubble tension. We demonstrate the application of our method to several simultaneously observed SMBHBs, as well as the method's robustness against confusion between the host galaxies of SMBHB sources in realistic observing scenarios. |
| title | The Targeted Standard Siren Cosmology with Pulsar Timing Arrays |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12168 |