An astrophysically motivated ranking criterion for low-latency electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave events

Artale, M. Celeste; Bouffanais, Yann; Mapelli, Michela; Giacobbo, Nicola; Sabha, Nadeen B.; Santoliquido, Filippo; Pasquato, Mario; Spera, Mario

doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1252

An astrophysically motivated ranking criterion for low-latency electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave events

Feb 25, 2020

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Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 495 (2020) 2, 1841-1852

Published: Jun 21, 2020

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2002.11214 [astro-ph.GA]

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10.1093/mnras/staa1252 (publication)

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Abstract: (Oxford University Press)

We investigate the properties of the host galaxies of compact binary mergers across cosmic time. To this end, we combine population synthesis simulations together with galaxy catalogues from the hydrodynamical cosmological simulation eagle to derive the properties of the host galaxies of binary neutron star (BNS), black hole-neutron star (BHNS), and binary black hole (BBH) mergers. Within this framework, we derive the host galaxy probability, i.e. the probability that a galaxy hosts a compact binary coalescence as a function of its stellar mass, star formation rate, K_s magnitude, and B magnitude. This quantity is particularly important for low-latency searches of gravitational wave (GW) sources as it provides a way to rank galaxies lying inside the credible region in the sky of a given GW detection, hence reducing the number of viable host candidates. Furthermore, even if no electromagnetic counterpart is detected, the proposed ranking criterion can still be used to classify the galaxies contained in the error box. Our results show that massive galaxies (or equivalently galaxies with a high luminosity in K_s band) have a higher probability of hosting BNS, BHNS, and BBH mergers. We provide the probabilities in a suitable format to be implemented in future low-latency searches.

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13 pages, 6 figures. Accepted in MNRAS

black hole physics
gravitational waves
methods: numerical
stars: mass-loss
stars: neutron

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