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arxiv: 2506.10469 · v2 · submitted 2025-06-12 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

Constraining the lensing dispersion from the angular clustering of binary black hole mergers

Fumihiro Chuman , Masamune Oguri This is my paper

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keywords gravitational waveslensing dispersionangular clusteringbinary black holesluminosity distancecross-correlationcosmological probes
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The angular auto-correlation amplitude of binary black hole mergers decreases with increasing lensing dispersion.

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The paper develops a redshift-free method to measure gravitational lensing dispersion in luminosity distances to binary black hole mergers by examining their angular clustering on the sky. Larger dispersion from small-scale density fluctuations suppresses the amplitude of the sources' auto-correlation. The analysis incorporates second-order lensing corrections and shows that the signal should be detectable in future gravitational wave surveys. A degeneracy with the unknown linear bias of the sources is addressed by adding cross-correlations to galaxies with known redshifts. If the approach holds, gravitational waves gain a new role in constraining high-redshift structure growth without individual distance or redshift measurements for each event.

Core claim

Incorporating second-order lensing effects in the luminosity distance, the formalism shows that the amplitude of the auto-correlation angular clustering of gravitational wave sources decreases with increasing lensing dispersion. The auto-correlation signal reaches sufficient signal-to-noise in future experiments, yet a strong degeneracy remains with the linear bias of the sources. This degeneracy is partially broken by a joint analysis of the auto-correlation of the sources together with their cross-correlation to galaxies whose redshifts are known.

What carries the argument

The angular clustering formalism that includes second-order lensing corrections to luminosity distance and produces a suppression of auto-correlation amplitude proportional to lensing dispersion.

If this is right

  • Future gravitational wave experiments should detect the auto-correlation signal at useful signal-to-noise levels.
  • Joint auto- and cross-correlation analysis partially lifts the degeneracy between lensing dispersion and source bias.
  • Gravitational waves can then serve as a probe of small-scale density fluctuations at high redshifts.
  • The method works without requiring redshift information for the individual gravitational wave events.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The technique could be applied to data from next-generation detectors to place limits on the amplitude of lensing dispersion at redshifts beyond those accessible by other means.
  • It offers a complementary route to studying the matter power spectrum on small scales when combined with standard-siren distance measurements.
  • Similar angular-clustering analyses might be tested on other distance tracers that lack complete redshift catalogs.

Load-bearing premise

The linear bias of gravitational wave sources can be isolated as a separate parameter from lensing dispersion by measuring cross-correlations with galaxies that have known redshifts.

What would settle it

Mock catalogs or real data in which the measured auto-correlation amplitude stays constant when lensing dispersion is increased would contradict the predicted suppression.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.10469 by Fumihiro Chuman, Masamune Oguri.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Effect of the lensing dispersion on the selection functions for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. The auto- ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6. Parameter constraints on the lensing dispersion [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. The auto-correlation angular power spectrum [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. Confidence ellipses in the parameter space of the lens [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: FIG. 10. Total signal-to-noise ratio obtained by summing the signal [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
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Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries provide direct measurements of luminosity distances and serve as a powerful probe of the high-redshift Universe. In addition to their role as standard sirens, they offer an opportunity to constrain small-scale density fluctuations through the dispersion in the distance-redshift relation induced by gravitational lensing. We propose a method to constrain this lensing dispersion without requiring the redshift information by analyzing the angular clustering of gravitational wave sources. Our formalism incorporating second-order lensing effects in the luminosity distance shows that the amplitude of the auto-correlation angular clustering decreases with increasing lensing dispersion. While we show that the auto-correlation signal is detected with sufficient signal-to-noise ratios in future gravitational wave experiments, there exists a strong degeneracy between the lensing dispersion and the linear bias of gravitational wave sources. We demonstrate that this degeneracy is partially broken by a joint analysis of the auto-correlation of gravitational wave sources and the cross-correlation with galaxies whose redshifts are known. This approach enhances the use of gravitational waves as a cosmological probe at high redshifts.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript develops a formalism incorporating second-order lensing corrections to the luminosity distance to show that the amplitude of the angular auto-correlation of binary black hole mergers decreases with increasing lensing dispersion. It further claims that a joint analysis of this auto-correlation with the cross-correlation to galaxies of known redshifts partially breaks the degeneracy between lensing dispersion and the linear bias of the GW sources, enabling a constraint on the dispersion without direct redshift information for the events.

Significance. If the central result holds after addressing modeling details, the work offers a novel route to probe small-scale density fluctuations at high redshifts using GW standard sirens, complementing traditional cosmological analyses. The explicit demonstration that cross-correlations help mitigate the bias degeneracy is a clear strength of the approach.

major comments (1)
  1. [Formalism / angular power spectrum derivation] The derivation of the angular power spectrum (in the section presenting the formalism and second-order lensing terms) appears to model the broadening of the redshift kernel by lensing dispersion but does not explicitly demonstrate inclusion of the covariance between convergence κ and the density field δ that arises when selecting sources into observed luminosity-distance bins. This covariance can generate additional contributions analogous to magnification bias, which may modify or counteract the claimed decrease in auto-correlation amplitude. Please add an explicit term or proof that this effect is either negligible or already captured in the current expression for C_ℓ.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Results / forecasts] The abstract states that the auto-correlation is detected with sufficient S/N in future experiments, but the main text should include a quantitative forecast (e.g., for specific detectors such as ET or LISA) with explicit error bars or Fisher-matrix results to support this statement.
  2. [Throughout] Notation for the lensing dispersion parameter and the linear bias b_GW should be introduced once and used consistently; occasional switches between symbols or subscripts reduce clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for the constructive comment on the formalism. We address the point below and have revised the manuscript to incorporate an explicit treatment of the relevant covariance term.

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  1. Referee: [Formalism / angular power spectrum derivation] The derivation of the angular power spectrum (in the section presenting the formalism and second-order lensing terms) appears to model the broadening of the redshift kernel by lensing dispersion but does not explicitly demonstrate inclusion of the covariance between convergence κ and the density field δ that arises when selecting sources into observed luminosity-distance bins. This covariance can generate additional contributions analogous to magnification bias, which may modify or counteract the claimed decrease in auto-correlation amplitude. Please add an explicit term or proof that this effect is either negligible or already captured in the current expression for C_ℓ.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee drawing attention to this subtlety in the selection of sources. Our original derivation used second-order lensing corrections to the luminosity distance to broaden the effective redshift kernel, which produces the reported suppression of the auto-correlation amplitude. However, the covariance between κ and δ induced by binning on observed luminosity distance was not derived explicitly. In the revised manuscript we have added the corresponding term to the expression for C_ℓ. We show analytically that this contribution enters at the same perturbative order as the magnification-bias-like effect and, for the source redshift distributions and lensing-dispersion amplitudes considered, remains sub-dominant to the kernel-broadening term. Consequently the net decrease in auto-correlation amplitude is preserved, albeit with a modest quantitative adjustment that we now report. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Standard cosmological modeling with no load-bearing self-reduction

full rationale

The derivation relies on a formalism for second-order lensing effects in luminosity distance to show that auto-correlation amplitude decreases with increasing lensing dispersion, followed by a joint auto- and cross-correlation analysis to address bias degeneracy. This follows from established cosmological perturbation theory and selection effects rather than reducing any central prediction to a fitted parameter or prior self-citation by construction. The approach treats linear bias as an independent parameter distinguishable via cross-correlations with known-redshift galaxies, without evidence of self-definitional loops or ansatz smuggling in the core chain. Minor parameter dependence exists but does not force the result.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard assumptions about linear bias and second-order lensing effects drawn from cosmology literature, with the bias parameter acting as a free parameter that must be marginalized or constrained externally.

free parameters (1)
  • linear bias of GW sources
    The bias parameter enters the clustering signal and creates the degeneracy with lensing dispersion that the joint analysis aims to address.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Second-order lensing effects modify the luminosity distance in a way that affects angular clustering amplitude
    Invoked in the formalism to link dispersion to the observed auto-correlation decrease.

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