Published March 10, 2021
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A Gravitational-wave Measurement of the Hubble Constant Following the Second Observing Run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo
Creators
- Abbott, B. P.
- Abbott, R.
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Adhikari, R. X.
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Anand, S.
- Ananyeva, A.
- Anderson, S. B.
- Appert, S.
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Arai, K.
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Araya, M. C.
- Barayoga, J. C.
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Barish, B. C.
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Billingsley, G.
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Biscans, S.
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Blackburn, J. K.
- Bork, R.
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Brooks, A. F.
- Brunett, S.
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Cahillane, C.
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Callister, T. A.
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Coughlin, M. W.
- Couvares, P.
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Coyne, D. C.
- Ehrens, P.
- Etzel, T.
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Feicht, J.
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Gossan, S. E.
- Grassia, P.
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Gupta, Anchal
- Gustafson, E. K.
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Kamai, B.
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Kanner, J. B.
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Kasprzack, M.
- Kondrashov, V.
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Korth, W. Z.
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Kozak, D. B.
- Lazzarini, A.
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Lo, R. K. L.
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Markowitz, A.
- Maros, E.
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Massinger, T. J.
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Matichard, F.
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McIver, J.
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Meshkov, S.
- Nevin, L.
- Pedraza, M.
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Reitze, D. H.
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Richardson, J. W.
- Robertson, N. A.
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Rollins, J. G.
- Sanchez, E. J.
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Sanchez, L. E.
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Sun, L.
- Tao, D.
- Taylor, R.
- Torrie, C. I.
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Vajente, G.
- Vass, S.
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Venugopalan, G.
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Wade, A. R.
- Wallace, L.
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Weinstein, A. J.
- Willis, J. L.
- Wipf, C. C.
- Xiao, S.
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Yamamoto, H.
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Zhang, L.
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Zucker, M. E.
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Zweizig, J.
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Barkett, K.
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Blackman, J.
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Chen, Y.
- Li, X.
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Ma, Y.
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Scheel, M.
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Tso, R.
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Varma, V.
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- Virgo Collaboration
Abstract
This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant (H₀) using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector network. The presence of the transient electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star GW170817 led to the first standard-siren measurement of H₀. Here we additionally use binary black hole detections in conjunction with galaxy catalogs and report a joint measurement. Our updated measurement is H₀ = 69⁺¹⁶₋₈ km s⁻¹ Mpc⁻¹ (68.3% of the highest density posterior interval with a flat-in-log prior) which is an improvement by a factor of 1.04 (about 4%) over the GW170817-only value of 69⁺¹⁷₋₈ km s⁻¹ Mpc⁻¹. A significant additional contribution currently comes from GW170814, a loud and well-localized detection from a part of the sky thoroughly covered by the Dark Energy Survey. With numerous detections anticipated over the upcoming years, an exhaustive understanding of other systematic effects are also going to become increasingly important. These results establish the path to cosmology using gravitational-wave observations with and without transient electromagnetic counterparts.
Additional Information
© 2021. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 2019 August 21; revised 2020 November 7; accepted 2020 December 11; published 2021 March 19. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of the Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for the Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector and the creation and support of the EGO consortium. The authors also gratefully acknowledge research support from these agencies as well as by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación, the Vicepresidència i Conselleria d'Innovació Recerca i Turisme and the Conselleria d'Educació i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears, the Conselleria d'Educació Investigació Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, the European Commission, the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the Paris Île-de-France Region, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFIH), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Leverhulme Trust, the Research Corporation, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan and the Kavli Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF, STFC, INFN, and CNRS for provision of computational resources.Errata
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- 98485
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Related works
- Describes
- 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4267 (DOI)
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06060 (URL)
Funding
- NSF
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Max-Planck-Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Australian Research Council
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)
- Department of Science and Technology (India)
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
- Ministry of Human Resource Development (India)
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación
- Vicepresidència i Conselleria d'Innovació, Recerca i Turisme
- Conselleria d'Educació i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears
- Conselleria d'Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana
- National Science Centre (Poland)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Russian Science Foundation
- European Commission
- European Regional Development Funds (ERDF)
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
- Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO)
- Paris Île-de-France Region
- National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (NKFIA)
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Industry Canada
- Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações (MCTIC)
- International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR)
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Leverhulme Trust
- Research Corporation
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- Kavli Foundation
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- LIGO, Astronomy Department
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