The Gravitational Wave Bias Parameter from Angular Power Spectra: Bridging Between Galaxies and Binary Black Holes
arXiv:2411.11965 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2025/04/056
Abstract
This study presents the modeling of the gravitational wave (GW) bias parameter by bridging a connection between simulated GW sources and galaxies in low redshift galaxy surveys 2MPZ and WISExSCOS (WISC). We study this connection by creating a mock GW catalog, populating galaxy surveys with binary black holes (BBHs) for different scenarios of the GW host-galaxy probability as a function of the galaxy stellar mass. We probe the observable consequences of this connection by exploring the spatial clustering of the GW sources in terms of the GW bias parameter. We consider a phenomenological broken power law model for the host-galaxy probability function, with a potential turnover at high stellar mass ( in the fiducial model) where the star formation efficiency begins to drop. We vary the parameters of the GW host-galaxy probability function and find that generically the GW bias increases as increases (and gets suppressed as decreases). The change in the GW bias parameter shows a maximum change of about for different scenarios explored in this work in comparison to the galaxy bias. Future measurements of the GW bias can help constrain and the slopes of the host-galaxy probability function and thus offer insights into the underlying astrophysical processes.
29 pages (+15 pages in appendices), 15 figures (+9 figures in appendices), Published in JCAP
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