27–30 Apr 2026
Palais des papes, Avignon
Europe/Paris timezone

First measurement of the Hubble constant from gravitational wave-galaxy cross-correlations

29 Apr 2026, 14:00
20m
Chambre du Trésorier (Palais des papes, Avignon)

Chambre du Trésorier

Palais des papes, Avignon

Speaker

Isabela Santiago de Matos (University of Portsmouth)

Description

I will present our recent work where we detected for the first time cross-correlations between gravitational wave sources and galaxies, at 5.9$\sigma$. We analysed the GWTC-3 and GLADE+ catalogs with a novel technique called Peak Sirens. We obtained the first measurement of the Hubble constant from this method, and the first bounds whatsoever on the gravitational wave clustering bias. This work opens a new window for analysing GW sources as tracers of the large scale structures.

Author

Isabela Santiago de Matos (University of Portsmouth)

Co-authors

Charles Dalang (Ecole Normale Supérieure) Tessa Baker Prof. Raul Abramo João Ferri Miguel Quartin (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)

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