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The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the early 2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in the milli-Hertz band. In contrast to the present ground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nikolaos Karnesis , Stanislav Babak , Mauro Pieroni , Neil Cornish , Tyson Littenberg

In this work we derive two computationally efficient frequentist detection statistics that can be used in searches for gravitational-wave bursts with memory in pulsar timing data. By maximizing the likelihood ratio in two different ways we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jerry P. Sun , Xavier Siemens , Dustin R. Madison

We present the successful recovery of common envelope ejection efficiency assumed in a simulated population of double white dwarf binaries like those which may be observed by the future LISA mission. We simulate the formation of double…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-27 Vera Delfavero , Katelyn Breivik , Sarah Thiele , Richard O'Shaughnessy , John G. Baker

We discussed prospects for directly detecting circular polarization signal of gravitational wave background. We found it is generally difficult to probe the monopole mode of the signal due to broad directivity of gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Seto

This work explores the relationship between two data-analysis methods used in the search for continuous gravitational waves in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data: the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic and the 5-vector method. We show that the 5-vector method can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 L. D'Onofrio , P. Astone , S. Dal Pra , S. D'Antonio , M. Di Giovanni , R. De Rosa , P. Leaci , S. Mastrogiovanni , L. Mirasola , F. Muciaccia , C. Palomba , L. Pierini

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational waves from galactic binaries (GBs) of white dwarfs or neutron stars. Some of these objects are among the most magnetic astrophysical objects in the Universe. Magnetism, by…

The upcoming LISA mission offers the unique opportunity to study the Milky Way through gravitational wave radiation from Galactic binaries. Among the variety of Galactic gravitational wave sources, LISA is expected to individually resolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Enrico Barausse

We describe the design of a gravitational wave timing array, a novel scheme that can be used to search for low-frequency gravitational waves by monitoring continuous gravitational waves at higher frequencies. We show that observations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-25 María José Bustamante-Rosell , Joel Meyers , Noah Pearson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Aaron Zimmerman

Galactic compact binaries with orbital periods shorter than a few hours emit detectable gravitational waves at low frequencies. Their gravitational wave signals can be detected with the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

Joint gravitational-wave detections of stellar-mass black-hole binaries by ground- and space-based observatories will provide unprecedented opportunities for fundamental physics and astronomy. We present a semianalytic method to estimate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Davide Gerosa , Sizheng Ma , Kaze W. K. Wong , Emanuele Berti , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Yanbei Chen , Krzysztof Belczynski

The noise produced by the inspiral of millions of white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way may pose a threat to one of the main goals of the space-based LISA mission: the detection of massive black hole binary mergers. We present a novel study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Charles Badger , Katarina Martinovic , Alejandro Torres-Forné , Mairi Sakellariadou , José A. Font

We are developing a Bayesian approach based on Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques to search for and extract information about white dwarf binary systems with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Here we present results obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Miquel Trias , Alberto Vecchio , John Veitch

Current gravitational wave detectors are sensitive to coalescing black holes and neutron stars. However, double white dwarfs (DWDs) have long been recognized as promising sources of gravitational waves, and upcoming detectors like LISA will…

Finding a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) of astrophysical or primordial origin is one of the quests of current and future gravitational-wave observatories. While detector networks such as LIGO-Virgo-Kagra or pulsar timing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Quentin Baghi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Marc Besançon , Henri Inchauspé

Stellar-mass black-hole binaries are the most numerous gravitational-wave sources observed to date. Their properties make them suitable for observation both by ground- and space-based detectors. Starting from synthetic catalogues…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 R. Buscicchio , J. Torrado , C. Caprini , G. Nardini , N. Karnesis , M. Pieroni , A. Sesana

Here we describe a hierarchal and iterative data analysis algorithm used for searching, characterizing, and removing bright, monochromatic binaries from the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) data streams. The algorithm uses the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Louis J. Rubbo , Neil J. Cornish , Ronald W. Hellings

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Becca Ewing , Surabhi Sachdev , Ssohrab Borhanian , B. S. Sathyaprakash

In this thesis we consider the data analysis problem of detecting gravitational waves emitted by inspiraling binary systems. Detection of gravitational waves will open a new window on the Universe enabling direct detection of systems such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-10 Gareth Jones

We present a time-frequency method to detect gravitational wave signals in interferometric data. This robust method can detect signals from poorly modeled and unmodeled sources. We evaluate the method on simulated data containing noise and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Warren G. Anderson , R. Balasubramanian

The development of search algorithms for gravitational wave sources in the LISA data stream is currently a very active area of research. It has become clear that not only does difficulty lie in searching for the individual sources, but in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-05 Edward K. Porter