Measuring the Hubble constant with strongly lensed gravitational waves from space-based detector networks
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The measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$ plays a central role in modern cosmology. In this work, we investigate the potential of strongly lensed gravitational-wave (SLGW) signals from massive binary black hole mergers to constrain $H_0$ using future space-based detector networks. We consider two observational scenarios: one in which the source redshift is unknown, and another in which it is independently determined through electromagnetic observations. We show that meaningful constraints on $H_0$ can still be achieved without source-redshift information, provided that the lens redshift is known. For individual SLGW events, the joint Taiji+LISA analysis improves the measurement precision of $H_0$ by approximately a factor of two compared with the Taiji-only configuration. Extending the analysis to the population level, we combine five simulated SLGW events and find that the uncertainty in $H_0$, quantified by the 95\% credible interval, reaches the $1.1\times10^{-1}$ level when the source redshift is treated as unknown, and further improves to $4.2\times10^{-2}$ when the source redshift is independently measured. Our results demonstrate that joint space-based gravitational-wave observations can substantially enhance the cosmological capability of SLGW events and provide a promising avenue for precision measurements of the Hubble constant.
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