Annual modulation of the Galactic binary confusion noise bakground and LISA data analysis
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-10 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We study the anisotropies of the Galactic confusion noise background and its effects on LISA data analysis. LISA has two data streams of the gravitational waves signals relevant for low frequency regime. Due to the anisotropies of the background, the matrix for their confusion noises has off-diagonal components and depends strongly on the orientation of the detector plane. We find that the sky-averaged confusion noise level could change by a factor of 2 in three months, and would be minimum when the orbital position of LISA is either around the spring or autumn equinox.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0403014,
title = {Annual modulation of the Galactic binary confusion noise bakground and LISA data analysis},
author = {Naoki Seto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0403014},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, 6 figures