Published May 1, 2020 | Version v1
Journal article

Forecasting the interaction in dark matter-dark energy models with standard sirens from the Einstein telescope

  • 1. Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, CEP 05314-970, São Paulo, SP (Brazil)
  • 2. Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, College of Physical Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009 (China)
  • 3. Divisão de Astrofísica, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Avenida dos Astronautas 1758, São José dos Campos, 12227-010, SP (Brazil)

Description

Gravitational Waves (GW's) can determine the luminosity distance of the progenitor directly from the amplitude of the wave, without assuming any specific cosmological model. Thus, it can be considered as a standard siren. The coalescence of binary neutron stars (BNS) or neutron star-black hole pair (NSBH) can generate GW's as well as the electromagnetic counterpart, which can be detected in a form of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) and can be used to determine the redshift of the source. Consequently, such a standard siren can be a very useful probe to constrain the cosmological parameters. In this work, we consider an interacting Dark Matter-Dark Energy (DM-DE) model. Assuming some fiducial values for the parameters of our model, we simulate the luminosity distance for a "realistic" and "optimistic" GW+GRB events , which can be detected by the third-generation GW detector Einstein Telescope (ET). Using these simulated events, we perform a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) to constrain the DM-DE coupling constant and other model parameters in 1 σ and 2 σ confidence levels. We also investigate how GW's can improve the constraints obtained by current cosmological probes.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/021

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2020
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 021
ISSN
1475-7516