GALAXY-GW CROSS-CORRELATIONS One of the most used observables in the analysis of galaxy

surveys is the galaxy power spectrum (or correlation functions). It is possible to extract a trove of
information from radial and angular correlations (see e.g. Raccanelli et al. 2013, 2015b, 2016d), both
by auto-correlating galaxies and by cross-correlating galaxies from different galaxy surveys

(see e.g. Bacon et al. 2015) or with other observables, such as CMB temperature maps (see e.g.
Bertacca et al. 2011; Raccanelli et al. 2015a). A summary of cosmological measurements from auto-
and cross- correlations using radio continuum surveys can be found in Raccanelli et al. (2012). In this
Section we focus on cross-correlations of radio galaxy with GW maps, both by correlating samples in
the same redshift range to investigate properties of binary black hole (BBH) mergers, and by looking
at radial crosscorrelations in different redshift bins, in order to detect the lensing of GWs by
foreground galaxies, and use this measurement to constrain models that explain the cosmic
acceleration. In Section 3.1 we briefly summarize the methodology for determining the nature of
BBH progenitors, presented in Raccanelli et al. 2016c, and present updated forecasts. Radial cross-
correlations can be used to test models of dark energy and modified gravity, as first suggested by
Cutler & Holz (2009) and then further studied in Camera & Nishizawa (2013); in Section 3.2 we will
analyze this technique in the context of radio surveys correlated with BBH mergers.

3.1 Angular cross-correlations The angular cross-correlation of galaxy catalogs with GW maps is a
natural way to investigate properties of the progenitors of compact objects whose mergers give rise
to the GWs detected by laser interferometers, such as the hypothesis that BBH trace matter
inhomogeneities (Namikawa et al. 2016a), or to constrain the distance-redshift relation (Oguri 2016).
16). In a similar way, Raccanelli et al. 2016c recently suggested that the cross-correlation of Star
Forming Galaxies (SFG) with GW maps can constrain the cosmological scenario in which the Dark
Matter is comprised of Primordial Black Holes (PBHs).