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- Title
China's first step towards probing the expanding universe and the nature of gravity using a space borne gravitational wave antenna.
- Authors
The Taiji Scientific Collaboration; Wu, Yue-Liang; Luo, Zi-Ren; Wang, Jian-Yu; Bai, Meng; Bian, Wei; Cai, Rong-Gen; Cai, Zhi-Ming; Cao, Jin; Chen, Di-Jun; Chen, Ling; Chen, Li-Sheng; Chen, Ming-Wei; Chen, Wei-Biao; Chen, Ze-Yi; Cong, Lin-Xiao; Deng, Jian-Feng; Dong, Xiao-Long; Duan, Li; Fan, Sen-Quan
- Abstract
In this perspective, we outline that a space borne gravitational wave detector network combining LISA and Taiji can be used to measure the Hubble constant with an uncertainty less than 0.5% in ten years, compared with the network of the ground based gravitational wave detectors which can measure the Hubble constant within a 2% uncertainty in the next five years by the standard siren method. Taiji is a Chinese space borne gravitational wave detection mission planned for launch in the early 2030 s. The pilot satellite mission Taiji-1 has been launched in August 2019 to verify the feasibility of Taiji. The results of a few technologies tested on Taiji-1 are presented in this paper. Gravitational wave astronomy has opened the door to test general relativity and the effect of gravity in the Universe. The authors present the capabilities of an overlap between space gravitational wave detectors LISA and Taiji to constrain the Hubble constant to 0.5%, in 10 years, and what can be learned from the satellite pilot Taiji-1 launched in 2019.
- Subjects
CHINA; GRAVITATIONAL wave detectors; ARTIFICIAL satellites; HUBBLE constant; ASTRONOMY
- Publication
Communications Physics, 2021, Vol 4, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2399-3650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s42005-021-00529-z