Galaxy Clustering Can Reveal Host-Galaxy Properties of Binary Black Hole Mergers

arXiv:2610.11045 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-08

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Terminology

• Clustering — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 1× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Modelling the host galaxies of binary compact object mergers with observational scaling relations
• Understanding the progenitor formation galaxies of merging binary black holes
• Exploring binary black hole mergers and host galaxies with Shark and COMPAS
• Exploring galaxies-gravitational waves cross-correlations as an astrophysical probe
• Clustering of binary black hole mergers: a detailed analysis of the EAGLE+MOBSE simulation
• Probing Binary Black Hole Formation Channels through Cosmic Large-Scale Structure
• Gravitational Wave Bias in IllustrisTNG300 from Machine-Learned Population-Synthesis Calibrated Merger Rates
• Determining the progenitors of merging black-hole binaries
• GW$\times$LSS: Chasing the Progenitors of Merging Binary Black Holes
• Cross-correlating galaxy catalogs and gravitational waves: a tomographic approach
• Gravitational waves and galaxies cross-correlations: a forecast on GW biases for future detectors
• Constraining the lensing dispersion from the angular clustering of binary black hole mergers
• Modeling Gravitational Wave Bias from 3D Power Spectra of Spectroscopic Surveys
• Connecting The Hierarchically Merging Binary Black Hole Population To Their Host Galaxies
• Inferring host-galaxy properties of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's black holes

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