Calibrating systematic errors in the distance determination with the luminosity-distance space large scale structure of dark sirens and its potential applications

Abstract

The cosmological luminosity-distance can be measured from gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens, free of astronomical distance ladders and the associated systematics. However, it may still contain systematics arising from various astrophysical, cosmological and experimental sources. With the large amount of dark standard sirens of upcoming third generation GW experiments, such potential systematic bias can be diagnosed and corrected by statistical tools of the large scale structure of the universe. We estimate that, by cross-correlating the dark siren luminosity-distance space distribution and galaxy redshift space distribution, multiplicative error $m$ in the luminosity distance measurement can be constrained with $1\sigma$ uncertainty ${\sigma }_m\sim 0.1$. This is already able to distinguish some binary black hole origin scenarios unambiguously. Significantly better constraints and therefore more applications may be achieved by more advanced GW experiments.

Accepted by MNRAS

References in corpus (16)

• GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
• GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M${}_{\odot }$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M${}_{\odot }$ Compact Object
• The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design
• Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
• A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
• Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report
• The Shear TEsting Programme 2: Factors affecting high precision weak lensing analyses
• First measurement of the Hubble constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary-black-hole merger GW170814
• Calibrating Redshift Distributions Beyond Spectroscopic Limits with Cross-Correlations
• Cosmology with the SPHEREX All-Sky Spectral Survey
• A Gravitational Wave Detector with Cosmological Reach
• Using Galaxy Two-point Correlation Functions to Determine the Redshift Distributions of Galaxies Binned by Photometric Redshift
• Estimating the parameters of non-spinning binary black holes using ground-based gravitational-wave detectors: Statistical errors
• Binary black hole spectroscopy
• Inflation and Dark Energy from spectroscopy at $z>2$