Prospects for improving cosmological parameter estimation with gravitational-wave standard sirens from Taiji

Ze-Wei Zhao1, Ling-Feng Wang1, Jing-Fei Zhang1

  • 1Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.

Science Bulletin
|January 20, 2023
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