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Spherical harmonic analysis of anisotropies in polarized stochastic gravitational wave background with interferometry experiments

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-03-25 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We study the interferometric observation of intensity and polarization anisotropies of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We show that the observed correlated data is defined in the group manifold of the three-dimensional rotation. Explicit correlation between two detectors in the interferometry experiments such as LIGO-Virgo and KAGRA is constructed in terms of the Wigner D-functions. Our results may provide a tool for constructing data pipelines to estimate the power spectra of the SGWB anisotropies.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01606,
  title  = {Spherical harmonic analysis of anisotropies in polarized stochastic gravitational wave background with interferometry experiments},
  author = {Yu-Kuang Chu and Guo-Chin Liu and Kin-Wang Ng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01606},
  year   = {2021}
}