https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08796-w
Regular Article – Theoretical Physics
Model-independent constraints on cosmic curvature: implication from the future space gravitational-wave antenna DECIGO
1
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, 430023, Wuhan, China
2
Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, 100875, Beijing, China
3
National Centre for Nuclear Research, Pasteura 7, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
Received:
28
September
2020
Accepted:
23
December
2020
Published online:
11
January
2021
In order to estimate cosmic curvature from cosmological probes like standard candles, one has to measure the luminosity distance 
, its derivative with respect to redshift 
and the expansion rate H(z) at the same redshift. In this paper, we study how such idea could be implemented with future generation of space-based DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (DECIGO), in combination with cosmic chronometers providing cosmology-independent H(z) data. Our results show that for the Hubble diagram of simulated DECIGO data acting as a new type of standard siren, it would be able to constrain cosmic curvature with the precision of 
with the currently available sample of 31 measurements of Hubble parameters. In the framework of the third generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, the spatial curvature is constrained to be 
for Einstein Telescope (ET). More interestingly, compared to other approaches aiming for model-independent estimations of spatial curvature, our analysis also achieve the reconstruction of the evolution of 
, in the framework of a model-independent method of Gaussian processes (GP) without assuming a specific form. Therefore, one can expect that the newly emerged gravitational wave astronomy can become useful in local measurements of cosmic curvature using distant sources.
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