Dálya, G., Galgóczi, G., Dobos, L., Frei, Z., Heng, I.S. , Macas, R., Messenger, C. , Raffai, P. and de Souza, R.. (2018) GLADE: A galaxy catalogue for multimessenger searches in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(2), pp. 2374-2381. (doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1703)
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Abstract
We introduce a value-added full-sky catalogue of galaxies, named as Galaxy List for the Advanced Detector Era, or GLADE. The purpose of this catalogue is to (i) help identifications of host candidates for gravitational-wave events, (ii) support target selections for electromagnetic follow-up observations of gravitational-wave candidates, (iii) provide input data on the matter distribution of the local Universe for astrophysical or cosmological simulations, and (iv) help identifications of host candidates for poorly localized electromagnetic transients, such as gamma-ray bursts observed with the InterPlanetary Network. Both being potential hosts of astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, GLADE includes inactive and active galaxies as well. GLADE was constructed by cross-matching and combining data from five separate (but not independent) astronomical catalogues: GWGC, 2MPZ, 2MASS XSC, HyperLEDA, and SDSS-DR12Q. GLADE is complete up to dL=37+3−4Mpc in terms of the cumulative B-band luminosity of galaxies within luminosity distance dL, and contains all of the brightest galaxies giving half of the total B-band luminosity up to dL=91Mpc. As B-band luminosity is expected to be a tracer of binary neutron star mergers (currently the prime targets of joint GW+EM detections), our completeness measures can be used as estimations of completeness for containing all binary neutron star merger hosts in the local Universe.
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | Catalogues, galaxies: distances and redshifts. |
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Messenger, Dr Christopher and Heng, Professor Ik Siong |
| Authors: | Dálya, G., Galgóczi, G., Dobos, L., Frei, Z., Heng, I.S., Macas, R., Messenger, C., Raffai, P., and de Souza, R.. |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Research Centre: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy > Institute for Gravitational Research |
| Research Group: | Institute for Gravitational Research |
| Journal Name: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 0035-8711 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1365-2966 |
| Published Online: | 28 June 2018 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2018 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 472(2): 2374-2381 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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