English

An efficient GPU-accelerated multi-source global fit pipeline for LISA data analysis

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-12-12 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

The large-scale analysis task of deciphering gravitational wave signals in the LISA data stream will be difficult, requiring a large amount of computational resources and extensive development of computational methods. Its high dimensionality, multiple model types, and complicated noise profile require a global fit to all parameters and input models simultaneously. In this work, we detail our global fit algorithm, called ``Erebor,'' designed to accomplish this challenging task. It is capable of analysing current state-of-the-art datasets and then growing into the future as more pieces of the pipeline are completed and added. We describe our pipeline strategy, the algorithmic setup, and the results from our analysis of the LDC2A Sangria dataset, which contains Massive Black Hole Binaries, compact Galactic Binaries, and a parameterized noise spectrum whose parameters are unknown to the user. The Erebor algorithm includes three unique and very useful contributions: GPU acceleration for enhanced computational efficiency; ensemble MCMC sampling with multiple MCMC walkers per temperature for better mixing and parallelized sample creation; and special online updates to reversible-jump (or trans-dimensional) sampling distributions to ensure sampler mixing and accurate initial estimates for detectable sources in the data. We recover posterior distributions for all 15 (6) of the injected MBHBs in the LDC2A training (hidden) dataset. We catalog 12000\sim12000 Galactic Binaries (8000\sim8000 as high confidence detections) for both the training and hidden datasets. All of the sources and their posterior distributions are provided in publicly available catalogs.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2405.04690,
  title  = {An efficient GPU-accelerated multi-source global fit pipeline for LISA data analysis},
  author = {Michael L. Katz and Nikolaos Karnesis and Natalia Korsakova and Jonathan R. Gair and Nikolaos Stergioulas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04690},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

29 pages, 9 figures, appendices

R2 v1 2026-06-28T16:20:08.957Z