Simultaneously search for multi-target Galactic binary gravitational waves
Abstract
The search for Galactic binary gravitational waves is a critical challenge for future space-based gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA. We propose an innovative approach to simultaneously explore gravitational waves originating from Galactic binaries by developing a new Local Maxima Particle Swarm Optimization (LMPSO) algorithm. This new approach effectively addresses the inaccuracies often associated with signal subtraction contamination, a challenge for traditional iterative subtraction methods, particularly when dealing with low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals (e.g., SNR 15). We also account for the effects of overlapping signals and degeneracy noise. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach, we use residuals from the LISA mock data challenge (LDC1-4), where 10,982 injected sources with SNR 15 have been removed. For the remaining sources with SNR 15, our method successfully identifies 6,508 signals, yielding a false alarm rate of . By focusing on a subset of sources-specifically, those with mHz and those with mHz but SNR -we identify 3,406 signals, with a reduced false alarm rate of . We further demonstrate that, within the same detection SNR range, our method achieves a comparable or lower than other existing methods.
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@article{arxiv.2401.09300,
title = {Simultaneously search for multi-target Galactic binary gravitational waves},
author = {Pin Gao and Xilong Fan and Zhoujian Cao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.09300},
year = {2026}
}