Cosmology with the angular cross-correlation of gravitational-wave and galaxy catalogs: forecasts for next-generation interferometers and the Euclid survey
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| author | Pedrotti, Alessandro Mancarella, Michele Bel, Julien Santoni, Michele Gerosa, Davide |
| author_facet | Pedrotti, Alessandro Mancarella, Michele Bel, Julien Santoni, Michele Gerosa, Davide |
| contents | We study the angular power spectrum of gravitational-wave and galaxy catalogs in tomographic redshift and distance bins as a probe of late-time cosmology, focusing specifically on next-generation ground-based interferometers in combination with the Euclid photometric survey. We assess the potential of this technique to constrain the Hubble constant and the matter energy density. Our analysis incorporates realistic gravitational-wave source populations, error modelling calibrated on recent detector designs, and accounts for nuisance parameters. We show that the tomographic angular cross-correlation could determine the Hubble constant to percent or sub-percent precision depending on the binning choice, configuration and operation time of gravitational-wave observatories. This conclusion holds even when marginalising over the unknown tracer biases, primordial power-spectrum parameters and baryon density. In particular, we show that the combination of the galaxy auto-correlation spectra and the cross-correlation of gravitational waves and galaxy surveys can lead to an improvement of up to a factor ${\sim}10$ in constraining power over either of the two probes taken individually. However, this prospect crucially relies on the presence of multiple gravitational-wave interferometers able to yield precise sky localisation. We also discuss the use of a spectroscopic redshift catalog, as well as the detectability of the clustering bias of gravitational-wave sources. |
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| spellingShingle | Cosmology with the angular cross-correlation of gravitational-wave and galaxy catalogs: forecasts for next-generation interferometers and the Euclid survey Pedrotti, Alessandro Mancarella, Michele Bel, Julien Santoni, Michele Gerosa, Davide Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We study the angular power spectrum of gravitational-wave and galaxy catalogs in tomographic redshift and distance bins as a probe of late-time cosmology, focusing specifically on next-generation ground-based interferometers in combination with the Euclid photometric survey. We assess the potential of this technique to constrain the Hubble constant and the matter energy density. Our analysis incorporates realistic gravitational-wave source populations, error modelling calibrated on recent detector designs, and accounts for nuisance parameters. We show that the tomographic angular cross-correlation could determine the Hubble constant to percent or sub-percent precision depending on the binning choice, configuration and operation time of gravitational-wave observatories. This conclusion holds even when marginalising over the unknown tracer biases, primordial power-spectrum parameters and baryon density. In particular, we show that the combination of the galaxy auto-correlation spectra and the cross-correlation of gravitational waves and galaxy surveys can lead to an improvement of up to a factor ${\sim}10$ in constraining power over either of the two probes taken individually. However, this prospect crucially relies on the presence of multiple gravitational-wave interferometers able to yield precise sky localisation. We also discuss the use of a spectroscopic redshift catalog, as well as the detectability of the clustering bias of gravitational-wave sources. |
| title | Cosmology with the angular cross-correlation of gravitational-wave and galaxy catalogs: forecasts for next-generation interferometers and the Euclid survey |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10482 |