Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3798
Title: LISA as a dark energy probe
Authors: Arun, K.G.
Mishra, Chandrakanth
Broeck, C.V.D.
Iyer, B.R.
Sathyaprakash, B.S.
Sinha, Siddhartha
Issue Date: Apr-2009
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
Citation: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2009, Vol.26, p094021
Abstract: Recently, it has been shown that the inclusion of higher signal harmonics in the inspiral signals of binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) leads to dramatic improvements in the parameter estimation with Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In particular, the angular resolution becomes good enough to identify the host galaxy or galaxy cluster, in which case the redshift can be determined by electromagnetic means. The gravitational wave signal also provides the luminosity distance with high accuracy, and the relationship between this and the redshift depends sensitively on the cosmological parameters, such as the equation-of-state parameter w = pDE/ρDE of dark energy. Using binary SMBH events at z < 1 with appropriate masses and orientations, one would be able to constrain w to within a few per cent. We show that, if the measured sky location is folded into the error analysis, the uncertainty on w goes down by an additional factor of 2–3, leaving weak lensing as the only limiting factor in using LISA as a dark energy probe.
Description: Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3798
ISSN: E-ISSN: 1361-6382
P-ISSN: 0264-9381
Alternative Location: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/26/9/094021
http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5727
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009CQGra..26i4021A
Copyright: 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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