Dipole anisotropy in gravitational wave source distribution

Authors
  • P. Jain
Publication date 06-2023
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Article number 042
Volume | Issue number 2023 | 6
Number of pages 18
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract

Our local motion with respect to the cosmic frame of rest is believed to be dominantly responsible for the observed dipole anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). We study the effect of this motion on the sky distribution of gravitational wave (GW) sources. We determine the resulting dipole anisotropy in GW source number counts, mass weighted number counts, which we refer to as mass intensity, and mean mass per source. The mass M dependence of the number density n(M) distribution of BBH is taken directly from the data. We also test the anisotropy in the observable mean mass per source along the direction of the CMB dipole. The current data sample is relatively small and consistent with isotropy. The number of sources required for this test is likely to become available in near future.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/06/042
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