Constraining the Hubble constant to a precision of about 1% using multi-band dark standard siren detections

2021 
Gravitational wave signals from stellar-mass black hole binary inspiral can be used as standard sirens to perform cosmological inference. Such inspiral covers a wide range of frequency bands, ranging from the millihertz band to high frequency band, so that both space-borne and ground-based gravitational wave detectors can observe. In this work, we perform a comprehensive study on the ability of constraining the Hubble constant with the dark standard sirens, or gravitational wave events without the electromagnetic counterparts. In order to obtain the redshift information, we weight the galaxies within the localization error box according to the multiple band photometric information, and use them as a proxy for the binary black hole redshift. We find that, TianQin is expected to constrain the Hubble constant to a precision of about 30% through 10 gravitational wave events detections; in the most optimistic case, the Hubble constant can be constrained to a precision of <10%, if TianQin I+II is assumed. The multi-detector network of TianQin and LISA is capable of constraining the Hubble constant to within 5% precision in the optimistic case. It is worth highlighting that the multi-band network of TianQin and Einstein Telescope can constrain the Hubble constant to a precision close to 1%. We conclude that it is feasible to infer the Hubble constant with photo-z, for which we also demonstrate the self-consistency through the P-P plot. On the other hand, high quality spectroscopic redshift could play a critical role in improving the estimation precision.
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