Dear Colleagues,

GWs provide a new channel for studying and testing the cosmological expansion of the Universe. GW sources are cosmological standard sirens because it is possible to infer the luminosity distance of the source from their detection without any cosmological distance ladder.

Provided with a cosmological redshift, either from a direct electromagnetic counterpart or a galaxy survey, GW detections can be used to measure cosmological parameters, such as the Hubble constant. Nevertheless, it has been shown that GWs can also be used to probe general relativity on cosmological scales by studying their propagation.

This Special Issue will review and present progress and forecasts in the novel field of GW cosmology with current and future GW detectors. We welcome review papers on the status of the field, as well as research papers presenting novel methodologies for testing cosmology with GWs.

Dr. Simone Mastrogiovanni
Guest Editor

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• Gravitational waves cosmology
• Multi-messenger astronomy
• Gravitational-waves data analysis
• Cosmological tests of gravity
• Cosmology beyond the standard cosmological model
• Ground-based detectors
• Space-based detectors