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Simultaneously search for multi-target Galactic binary gravitational waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-03-10 v4 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

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 \ge 15 have been removed. For the remaining sources with SNR << 15, our method successfully identifies 6,508 signals, yielding a false alarm rate of FAS0.8=36.8%\text{FAS}_{0.8} = 36.8\%. By focusing on a subset of sources-specifically, those with f>3f > 3 mHz and those with f3f \le 3 mHz but SNR 13\ge 13-we identify 3,406 signals, with a reduced false alarm rate of FAS0.8=22.5%\text{FAS}_{0.8} = 22.5\%. We further demonstrate that, within the same detection SNR range, our method achieves a comparable or lower FAS\text{FAS} 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}
}
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