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Standard Sirens

Gravitational-wave sources whose distance can be read directly from the shape of the waveform, with no calibration ladder at all — the gravitational analogue of a standard candle. A merging neutron-star pair with an electromagnetic counterpart yielded the first standard-siren measurement of the Hubble constant.

Highlights

  • A distance straight from the gravitational waveform

Knowledge connections

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration

    Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.