GLADE+: an extended galaxy catalogue for multimessenger searches with advanced gravitational-wave detectors

G. Dálya*, R. Díaz, F. R. Bouchet, Z. Frei, J. Jasche, G. Lavaux, R. Macas, S. Mukherjee, M. Pálfi, R. S. De Souza, B. D. Wandelt, M. Bilicki, P. Raffai

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Abstract

We present GLADE+, an extended version of the GLADE galaxy catalogue introduced in our previous paper for multimessenger searches with advanced gravitational-wave detectors. GLADE+ combines data from six separate but not independent astronomical catalogues: the GWGC, 2MPZ, 2MASS XSC, HyperLEDA, and WISExSCOSPZ galaxy catalogues, and the SDSS-DR16Q quasar catalogue. To allow corrections of CMB-frame redshifts for peculiar motions, we calculated peculiar velocities along with their standard deviations of all galaxies having B-band magnitude data within redshift z = 0.05 using the 'Bayesian Origin Reconstruction from Galaxies' formalism. GLADE+ is complete up to luminosity distance dL=47+4 -2 Mpc in terms of the total expected B-band luminosity of galaxies, and contains all of the brightest galaxies giving 90 per cent of the total B-band and K-band luminosity up to dL ≃ 130 Mpc. We include estimations of stellar masses and individual binary neutron star merger rates for galaxies with W1 magnitudes. These parameters can help in ranking galaxies in a given gravitational wave localization volume in terms of their likelihood of being hosts, thereby possibly reducing the number of pointings and total integration time needed to find the electromagnetic counterpart.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1403-1411
Number of pages9
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume514
Issue number1
Early online date30 May 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2022

Keywords

  • catalogues
  • galaxies: distances and redshifts

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