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Inferring Host-galaxy Properties of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Black Holes

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dc.contributor.author Vijaykumar, Aditya en_US
dc.contributor.author Fishbach, Maya en_US
dc.contributor.author ADHIKARI, SUSMITA en_US
dc.contributor.author Holz, Daniel E. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-20T04:03:35Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-20T04:03:35Z
dc.date.issued 2024-09 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Astrophysical Journal, 972(02). en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0004-637X en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1538-4357 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad6140 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/9079
dc.description.abstract Observations of gravitational waves from binary black hole (BBH) mergers have measured the redshift evolution of the BBH merger rate. The number density of galaxies in the Universe evolves differently with redshift based on their physical properties, such as their stellar masses and star formation rates. In this work we show that the measured population-level redshift distribution of BBHs sheds light on the properties of their probable host galaxies. We first assume that the hosts of BBHs can be described by a mixture model of galaxies weighted by stellar mass or star formation rate, and find that we can place upper limits on the fraction of mergers coming from a stellar-mass-weighted sample of galaxies. We then constrain the parameters of a physically motivated power-law delay-time distribution using GWTC-3 data, and self-consistently track galaxies in the UniverseMachine simulations with this delay-time model to infer the probable host galaxies of BBHs over a range of redshifts. We find that the inferred host galaxy distribution at redshift z = 0.21 has a median star formation rate ∼ 0.9 M⊙ yr−1 and a median stellar mass of ∼1.9 × 1010M⊙. We also provide distributions for the mean stellar age, halo mass, halo radius, peculiar velocity, and large-scale bias associated with the host galaxies, as well as their absolute magnitudes in the B and Ks bands. Our results can be used to design optimal electromagnetic follow-up strategies for BBHs, and also to aid the measurement of cosmological parameters using the statistical dark-siren method. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher IOP Publishing en_US
dc.subject Stellar Population Synthesis en_US
dc.subject Delay-Time Distribution en_US
dc.subject Dark-Matter Halos en_US
dc.subject Compact Object en_US
dc.subject Shubble Constant en_US
dc.subject Star-Formationmass en_US
dc.subject Metallicity en_US
dc.subject Connectionluminosity en_US
dc.subject 2024 en_US
dc.subject 2024-SEP-WEEK2 en_US
dc.subject TOC-SEP-2024 en_US
dc.title Inferring Host-galaxy Properties of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Black Holes en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.contributor.department Dept. of Physics en_US
dc.identifier.sourcetitle Astrophysical Journal en_US
dc.publication.originofpublisher Foreign en_US


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