Optimal statistic for detecting gravitational wave signals from binary inspirals with LISA

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作者
Rogan, A [1 ]
Bose, S
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[1] Washington State Univ, Dept Phys, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[2] Washington State Univ, Program Astron, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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10.1088/0264-9381/21/20/004
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A binary compact object early in its inspiral phase will be picked up by its nearly monochromatic gravitational radiation by LISA. But even this innocuous appearing candidate poses interesting detection challenges. The data that will be scanned for such sources will be a set of three functions of LISA's twelve data streams obtained through time-delay interferometry, which is necessary to cancel the noise contributions from laser-frequency fluctuations and optical-bench motions to these data streams. We call these three functions pseudo-detectors. The sensitivity of any pseudo-detector to a given sky position is a function of LISA's orbital position. Moreover, at a given point in LISA's orbit, each pseudo-detector has a different sensitivity to the same sky position. In this work, we obtain the optimal statistic for detecting gravitational wave signals, such as from compact binaries early in their inspiral stage, in LISA data. We also present how the sensitivity of LISA, defined by this optimal statistic, varies as a function of sky position and LISA's orbital location. Finally, we show how a real-time search for inspiral signals can be implemented on the LISA data by constructing a bank of templates in the sky positions.
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页码:S1607 / S1624
页数:18
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