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Gravitational waves (GWs) with electromagnetic counterparts (EMc) offer a novel approach to measure the Hubble constant ($H_0$), known as bright sirens, enabling $H_0$ measurements by combining GW-derived distances with EM-derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-08 Yejing Zhan , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Xiao Guo , Qing Yang , Daniele Spinoso , Fa-Yin Wang

We report the identification of a positive cross-correlation signal between the unresolved $\gamma$-ray emission, measured by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope, and four different galaxy cluster catalogues. The selected catalogues peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Manuel Colavincenzo , Xiuhui Tan , Simone Ammazzalorso , Stefano Camera , Marco Regis , Jun-Qing Xia , Nicolao Fornengo

(abridged) The clustering properties of galaxies belonging to different luminosity ranges or having different morphological types are different. These characteristics or `marks' permit to understand the galaxy catalogs that carry all this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 Vicent J. Martinez , Pablo Arnalte-Mur , Dietrich Stoyan

One of the goals of the current LIGO-GEO-Virgo science run is to identify transient gravitational wave (GW) signals in near real time to allow follow-up electromagnetic (EM) observations. An EM counterpart could increase the confidence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-30 Laura K Nuttall , Patrick J Sutton

Proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors such as DECIGO and BBO will detect $\sim10^6$ neutron-star (NS) binaries and determine the luminosity distances to the binaries with high precision. Combining the luminosity distances…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kent Yagi , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Tanaka

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Paola Leaci , Pia Astone , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Ornella Piccinni , Simone Mastrogiovanni

This paper reports a comprehensive study on the gravitational wave (GW) background from compact binary coalescences. We consider in our calculations newly available observation-based neutron star and black hole mass distributions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric J. Howell , David G. Blair , Zong-Hong Zhu

The challenge of understanding the Universe's dynamics, particularly the Hubble tension, requires precise measurements of the Hubble constant. Building upon the existing spectral-siren method, which capitalizes on population information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-10 Thomas C. K. Ng , Stefano Rinaldi , Otto A. Hannuksela

The search for continuous gravitational-wave signals requires the development of techniques that can effectively explore the low-significance regions of the candidate set. In this paper we present the methods that were developed for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-11 Berit Behnke , Maria Alessandra Papa , Reinhard Prix

The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations offers a whole new range of possible tests and opens up a new window which may shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In the present work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Minghui Du , Weiqiang Yang , Lixin Xu , Supriya Pan , David F. Mota

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering data has the potential to simultaneously constrain both the cosmological and galaxy formation models. In this paper we perform a comprehensive exploration of these signals and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Laura Marian , Robert E. Smith , Raul E. Angulo

Standard sirens are the gravitational wave (GW) analog of the astronomical standard candles, and can provide powerful information about the dynamics of the Universe. In this work, we simulate a catalog with 1000 standard siren events from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-26 Rocco D'Agostino , Rafael C. Nunes

Galaxy catalogs are essential for efficient searches of the electromagnetic counterparts of extragalactic gravitational-wave (GW) signals with highly uncertain localization. We show that one can efficiently catalog galaxies within a short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Imre Bartos , Arlin P. S. Crotts , Szabolcs Marka

The mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) can serve as standard sirens: the gravitational wave (GW) analog of standard candles. The upcoming space-borne GW detectors will be able to discover such systems and estimate their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Zhao-Feng Wu , Lok W. L. Chan , Martin Hendry , Otto A. Hannuksela

The gravitational wave (GW) signal from the merger of two black holes can serve as a standard sirens for cosmological inference. However, a degeneracy exists between the luminosity distance and the inclination angle between the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Jian-Dong Liu , Wen-Biao Han , Qianyun Yun , Shu-Cheng Yang

We present a new method to estimate redshift distributions and galaxy-dark matter bias parameters using correlation functions in a fully data driven and self-consistent manner. Unlike other machine learning, template, or correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Ben Hoyle , Markus Michael Rau

In this work, using the Gaussian Process, we explore the potentiality of future gravitational wave (GW) measurement to probe cosmic opacity through comparing its opacity-free luminosity distance (LD) with the opacity-dependent one from type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-22 Lu Zhou , Xiangyun Fu , Zhaohui Peng , Jun Chen

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). We include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-20 Alessandro Cuoco , Jun-Qing Xia , Marco Regis , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

One of the open issues of the standard cosmological model is the value of the cosmic dipole measured from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), as well as from the number count of quasars and radio sources. These measurements are currently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 S. Mastrogiovanni , C. Bonvin , G. Cusin , S. Foffa

Recent observations support the hypothesis that a large fraction of "short-hard" gamma-ray bursts (SHBs) are associated with compact binary inspiral. Since gravitational-wave (GW) measurements of well-localized inspiraling binaries can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Samaya Nissanke , Daniel E. Holz , Scott A. Hughes , Neal Dalal , Jonathan L. Sievers