• Gravitational wave echoes from strange quark stars in the equation of state with density dependent quark masses

    分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 分类: 物理学 >> 地球物理学、天文学和天体物理学 提交时间: 2024-01-09

    摘要: According to the recent studies, the gravitational wave (GW) echoes are expected to be generated by quark stars composed of ultrastif quark matter. The ultrastif equations of state (EOS) for quark matter were usually obtained either by a simple bag model with artifcially assigned sound velocity or by employing interacting strange quark matter (SQM) depicted by simple reparameterization and rescaling. In this study, we investigate GW echoes with EOSs for SQM in the framework of the equivparticle model with density-dependent quark masses and pairing efects. We conclude that strange quark stars (SQSs) can be sufciently compact to possess a photon sphere capable of generating GW echoes with frequencies in the range of approximately 20 kHz. However, SQSs cannot account for the observed 72 Hz signal in GW170817 event. Furthermore, we determined that quark-pairing efects play a crucial role in enabling SQSs to satisfy the necessary conditions for producing these types of echoes.

  • Cosmological model-independent measurement of cosmic curvature using distance sum rule with the help of gravitational waves

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Although the cosmic curvature has been tightly constrained in the standard cosmological model using observations of cosmic microwave background anisotropies, it is still of great importance to independently measure this key parameter using only late-universe observations in a cosmological model-independent way. The distance sum rule in strong gravitational lensing (SGL) provides such a way, provided that the three distances in the sum rule can be calibrated by other observations. In this paper, we propose that gravitational waves (GWs) can be used to provide the distance calibration in the SGL method, which can avoid the dependence on distance ladder and cover a wider redshift range. Using the simulated GW standard siren observation by the Einstein Telescope as an example, we show that this scheme is feasible and advantageous. We find that $\Delta\Omega_k\simeq 0.17$ with the current SGL data, which is slightly more precise than the case of using SN to calibrate. Furthermore, we consider the forthcoming LSST survey that is expected to observe many SGL systems, and we find that about $10^4$ SGL data could provide the precise measurement of $\Delta\Omega_k\simeq 10^{-2}$ with the help of GWs. In addition, our results confirm that this method of constraining $\Omega_k$ is strongly dependent on lens models. However, obtaining a more accurate phenomenological model for lens galaxies is highly predictable as future massive surveys observe more and more SGL samples, which will significantly improve the constraint of cosmic curvature.

  • Cosmological model-independent measurement of cosmic curvature using distance sum rule with the help of gravitational waves

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Although the cosmic curvature has been tightly constrained in the standard cosmological model using observations of cosmic microwave background anisotropies, it is still of great importance to independently measure this key parameter using only late-universe observations in a cosmological model-independent way. The distance sum rule in strong gravitational lensing (SGL) provides such a way, provided that the three distances in the sum rule can be calibrated by other observations. In this paper, we propose that gravitational waves (GWs) can be used to provide the distance calibration in the SGL method, which can avoid the dependence on distance ladder and cover a wider redshift range. Using the simulated GW standard siren observation by the Einstein Telescope as an example, we show that this scheme is feasible and advantageous. We find that $\Delta\Omega_k\simeq 0.17$ with the current SGL data, which is slightly more precise than the case of using SN to calibrate. Furthermore, we consider the forthcoming LSST survey that is expected to observe many SGL systems, and we find that about $10^4$ SGL data could provide the precise measurement of $\Delta\Omega_k\simeq 10^{-2}$ with the help of GWs. In addition, our results confirm that this method of constraining $\Omega_k$ is strongly dependent on lens models. However, obtaining a more accurate phenomenological model for lens galaxies is highly predictable as future massive surveys observe more and more SGL samples, which will significantly improve the constraint of cosmic curvature.

  • Strongly lensed type Ia supernovae as a precise late-universe probe of measuring the Hubble constant and cosmic curvature

    分类: 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Strongly lensed type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are expected to have some advantages in measuring time delays of multiple images, and so they have a great potential to be developed into a powerful late-universe cosmological probe. In this paper, we simulate a sample of lensed SNe Ia with time-delay measurements in the era of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Based on the distance sum rule, we use lensed SNe Ia to implement model-independent constraints on the Hubble constant $H_0$ and cosmic curvature parameter $\Omega_K$ in the late universe. We find that if 20 lensed SNe Ia could be observed, the constraint on $H_{0}$ is better than the measurement by the SH0ES collaboration. When the event number of lensed SNe Ia increases to 100, the constraint precision of $H_{0}$ is comparable with the result from Planck 2018 data. Considering 200 lensed SNe Ia events as the optimistic estimation, we obtain $\Delta H_0=0.33$ $\rm km\ s^{-1}\ Mpc^{-1}$ and $\Delta\Omega_K=0.053$. In addition, we also simulate lensed quasars in different scenarios to make a comparison and we find that they are still a useful cosmological probe even though the constraint precision from them is much less than that obtained from lensed SNe Ia. In the era of LSST, the measurements of time delay from both lensed SNe Ia and lensed quasars are expected to yield the results of $\Delta H_0=0.26 ~\rm km\ s^{-1}\ Mpc^{-1}$ and $\Delta\Omega_K=0.044$.