Measuring cosmic distances with standard sirens
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In this paper, the distance to the merger of two massive compact objects is encoded by the gravitational waves accompanying the merger without the usual appeal to a hierarchy of length scales, and the distance can be expressed as a linear combination of the distances to the merging.Abstract:
The gravitational waves accompanying the merger of two massive compact objects encode the distance to the merger without the usual appeal to a hierarchy of length scales.read more
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The Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
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Planck 2015 results - XIII. Cosmological parameters
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a cosmological analysis based on full-mission Planck observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation.
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Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
Peter A. R. Ade,Nabila Aghanim,Monique Arnaud,M. Ashdown,J. Aumont,Carlo Baccigalupi,A. J. Banday,R. B. Barreiro,James G. Bartlett,N. Bartolo,E. Battaner,Richard A. Battye,K. Benabed,Alain Benoit,A. Benoit-Lévy,J.-P. Bernard,Marco Bersanelli,P. Bielewicz,J. J. Bock,Anna Bonaldi,Laura Bonavera,J. R. Bond,Julian Borrill,François R. Bouchet,F. Boulanger,M. Bucher,Carlo Burigana,R. C. Butler,Erminia Calabrese,Jean-François Cardoso,A. Catalano,Anthony Challinor,A. Chamballu,Ranga-Ram Chary,H. C. Chiang,Jens Chluba,P. R. Christensen,Sarah E. Church,David L. Clements,S. Colombi,L. P. L. Colombo,C. Combet,A. Coulais,B. P. Crill,A. Curto,F. Cuttaia,Luigi Danese,R. D. Davies,R. J. Davis,P. de Bernardis,A. de Rosa,G. de Zotti,Jacques Delabrouille,F.-X. Désert,E. Di Valentino,Clive Dickinson,Jose M. Diego,Klaus Dolag,H. Dole,S. Donzelli,Olivier Doré,Marian Douspis,A. Ducout,Jo Dunkley,X. Dupac,George Efstathiou,F. Elsner,Torsten A. Ensslin,H. K. Eriksen,Marzieh Farhang,James R. Fergusson,Fabio Finelli,Olivier Forni,M. Frailis,A. A. Fraisse,E. Franceschi,A. Frejsel,S. Galeotta,S. Galli,K. Ganga,C. Gauthier,Martina Gerbino,Tuhin Ghosh,M. Giard,Y. Giraud-Héraud,Elena Giusarma,E. Gjerløw,J. González-Nuevo,Krzysztof M. Gorski,Serge Gratton,A. Gregorio,Alessandro Gruppuso,Jon E. Gudmundsson,Jan Hamann,F. K. Hansen,Duncan Hanson,D. L. Harrison,George Helou,Sophie Henrot-Versille,C. Hernández-Monteagudo,D. Herranz,S. R. Hildebrandt,E. Hivon,Michael P. Hobson,W. A. Holmes,Allan Hornstrup,W. Hovest,Zhiqi Huang,Kevin M. Huffenberger,G. Hurier,Andrew H. Jaffe,T. R. Jaffe,W. C. Jones,Mika Juvela,E. Keihänen,Reijo Keskitalo,Theodore Kisner,R. Kneissl,J. Knoche,Lloyd Knox,Martin Kunz,Hannu Kurki-Suonio,Guilaine Lagache,Anne Lähteenmäki,J.-M. Lamarre,Anthony Lasenby,Massimiliano Lattanzi,Charles R. Lawrence,J. P. Leahy,R. Leonardi,Julien Lesgourgues,François Levrier,Antony Lewis,Michele Liguori,P. B. Lilje,M. Linden-Vørnle,M. López-Caniego,Philip Lubin,J. F. Macías-Pérez,G. Maggio,Davide Maino,N. Mandolesi,A. Mangilli,A. Marchini,Peter G. Martin,M. Martinelli,E. Martínez-González,Silvia Masi,Sabino Matarrese,Pasquale Mazzotta,P. McGehee,Peter Meinhold,Alessandro Melchiorri,J.-B. Melin,L. Mendes,A. Mennella,M. Migliaccio,M. Millea,S. Mitra,M.-A. Miville-Deschênes,A. Moneti,L. Montier,Gianluca Morgante,Daniel J. Mortlock,Adam Moss,Dipak Munshi,J. A. Murphy,Pavel Naselsky,Federico Nati,Paolo Natoli,Calvin B. Netterfield,Hans Ulrik Nørgaard-Nielsen,F. Noviello,Dmitry Novikov,I. D. Novikov,C. A. Oxborrow,F. Paci,L. Pagano,F. Pajot,R. Paladini,Daniela Paoletti,Bruce Partridge,F. Pasian,G. Patanchon,T. J. Pearson,O. Perdereau,L. Perotto,Francesca Perrotta,Valeria Pettorino,F. Piacentini,M. Piat,E. Pierpaoli,Davide Pietrobon,Stéphane Plaszczynski,Etienne Pointecouteau,G. Polenta,L. Popa,G. W. Pratt,G. Prézeau,Simon Prunet,J.-L. Puget,Jörg P. Rachen,William T. Reach,Rafael Rebolo,M. Reinecke,Mathieu Remazeilles,C. Renault,A. Renzi,I. Ristorcelli,Graca Rocha,C. Rosset,M. Rossetti,G. Roudier,B. Rouillé d'Orfeuil,Michael Rowan-Robinson,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Ben Rusholme,Najla Said,Valentina Salvatelli,L. Salvati,M. Sandri,D. Santos,M. Savelainen,Giorgio Savini,Douglas Scott,Michael Seiffert,Paolo Serra,E. P. S. Shellard,Locke D. Spencer,M. Spinelli,V. Stolyarov,R. Stompor,R. Sudiwala,R. A. Sunyaev,D. Sutton,A.-S. Suur-Uski,J.-F. Sygnet,J. A. Tauber,Luca Terenzi,L. Toffolatti,M. Tomasi,M. Tristram,T. Trombetti,M. Tucci,J. Tuovinen,M. Turler,G. Umana,Luca Valenziano,Jussi-Pekka Väliviita,B. Van Tent,P. Vielva,Fabrizio Villa,L. A. Wade,Benjamin D. Wandelt,Ingunn Kathrine Wehus,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,Althea Wilkinson,D. Yvon,Andrea Zacchei,Andrea Zonca +260 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results based on full-mission Planck observations of temperature and polarization anisotropies of the CMB, which are consistent with the six-parameter inflationary LCDM cosmology.
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
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