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Table A.1.
Summary of the cosmological and population parameters, and relative priors, considered in this work.
| Symbol | Description | Model | Prior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmology (flat ΛCDM) | |||
| H0 | Hubble constant [km/s/Mpc] | All | 𝒰(10.0, 200.0) |
| Ωm, 0 | Matter energy density | All | Fixed to 0.3065 |
| Mass distributions | |||
| α | Primary power law slope | All | 𝒰(1.5, 12) |
| β | Secondary power law slope | All | 𝒰(−4, 12) |
| δm | Smoothing parameter [M⊙] | All | 𝒰(0.001, 10) |
| mlow | Power law lower limit [M⊙] | All | 𝒰(2, 10) |
| mhigh | Power law upper limit [M⊙] | All | 𝒰(50, 200) |
| μglow | Position of the first Gaussian peak [M⊙] | PL2P | 𝒰(5, 100) |
| σglow | Width of the first Gaussian peak [M⊙] | PL2P | 𝒰(0.4, 5) |
| μghigh | Position of the second Gaussian peak [M⊙] | PL2P | 𝒰(5, 100) |
| σghigh | Width of the second Gaussian peak [M⊙] | PL2P | 𝒰(0.4, 10) |
| λglow | Mixing fraction of the first Gaussian peak | PL2P | 𝒰(0, 1) |
| λghigh | Mixing fraction of the second Gaussian peak | PL2P | 𝒰(0, 1) |
| ci | Spline coefficients | PLS | 𝒢(μ = 0, σ = 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5) |
| Rate evolution (Madau-like) | |||
| γ | Slope at z < zp | All | 𝒰(0, 12) |
| κ | Slope at z > zp | All | 𝒰(0, 6) |
| zp | Peak redshift | All | 𝒰(0, 4) |
Notes. The symbol 𝒰(⋅) denotes a uniform prior distribution, while 𝒢 denotes a Gaussian distribution with mean μ and standard deviation σ.
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