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Presumably if the location could be determined accurately enough and it was close to a galaxy, we could conclude that it was most likely in that galaxy, and the
by cperciva 7y ago
Presumably if the location could be determined accurately enough and it was close to a galaxy, we could conclude that it was most likely in that galaxy, and thereby get a useful measurement though?
- DiogenesKynikos 7y agoNot with gravitational waves alone. People do want to correlate large numbers of binary black hole mergers with galaxy positions and come up with a statistical measurement of the Hubble constant, but no single BBH merger will be clearly identified with one galaxy under that scheme. You need lots of mergers, and the Hubble-constant determination is more model-dependent. Binary neutron stars with EM counterparts are much more straightforward.