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Archival searches for stellar-mass binary black holes in LISA

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-02-03 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Stellar-mass binary black holes will sweep through the frequency band of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for months to years before appearing in the audio-band of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. One can expect several tens of these events up to a distance of 500Mpc500 \,\mathrm{Mpc} each year. The LISA signal-to-noise ratio for such sources even at these close distances will be too small for a blind search to confidently detect them. However, next generation ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, expected to be operational at the time of LISA, will observe them with signal-to-noise ratios of several thousands and measure their parameters very accurately. We show that such high fidelity observations of these sources by ground-based detectors help in archival searches to dig tens of signals out of LISA data each year.

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@article{arxiv.2011.03036,
  title  = {Archival searches for stellar-mass binary black holes in LISA},
  author = {Becca Ewing and Surabhi Sachdev and Ssohrab Borhanian and B. S. Sathyaprakash},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03036},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures