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基于LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA O4a暗警报的哈勃常数改进约束

宇宙学与河外天体物理 2026-03-23 v1 高能天体物理现象

摘要

presented using the statistical dark siren method applied to a sample of seven well-localized gravitational-wave (GW) events from the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) observing run and ten additional events from the first three runs. Galaxy catalogs from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey (LS) are combined with a deep learning model to compute photometric redshift probability density functions. We extend our previous analysis by including the events GW230731_215307 and GW230927_153832, using sky maps from the fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4), and introducing key methodological improvements: r-band luminosity weighting of host galaxies; an extended GW likelihood that incorporates information from the binary black hole component masses; and a consistent treatment of selection effects that accounts for the incompleteness of the magnitude-limited LS galaxy catalog. Using a total of 17 well-localized dark sirens (seven from the first part of the fourth observing run, O4a), we obtain H0=78.812.2+14.6H_0 = 78.8^{+14.6}_{-12.2} km/s/Mpc without luminosity weighting and H0=78.211.0+12.0H_0 = 78.2^{+12.0}_{-11.0} km/s/Mpc when applying r-band luminosity weighting. Finally, we combine the luminosity-weighted dark siren sample with the bright siren GW170817, including constraints on the jet viewing angle and corrections for the host galaxy peculiar velocity, to obtain a final constraint of H0=69.94.0+4.1H_0 = 69.9^{+4.1}_{-4.0} km/s/Mpc, representing an improvement of approximately 11% in the uncertainty relative to the GW170817-only result.

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@article{arxiv.2603.20195,
  title  = {Improved constraint on the Hubble constant from dark sirens with LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA O4a},
  author = {V. Alfradique and C. R. Bom and G. Teixeira and A. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20195},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures