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We discuss spatial fluctuations in the gravitational wave background arising from unresolved Galactic binary sources, such as close white dwarf binaries, due to the fact the galactic binary source distribution is anisotropic. We introduce a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Naoki Seto , Asantha Cooray

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will feature a prominent anisotropic astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave signal, arising from the tens of millions of unresolved mHz white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way: the Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Alexander W. Criswell , Steven Rieck , Vuk Mandic

We investigate the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to the anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB). We first discuss the main astrophysical and cosmological sources of SGWB which are…

By correlating the signals from a pair of gravitational-wave detectors, one can undertake sensitive searches for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. If the stochastic background is anisotropic, then this correlated signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Bruce Allen , Adrian C. Ottewill

The random superposition of many weak sources will produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves that may dominate the response of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave observatory. Unless something can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Neil J. Cornish

A unique challenge for data analysis with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is that the noise backgrounds from instrumental noise and astrophysical sources will change significantly over both the year and the entire mission.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Matthew C. Digman , Neil J. Cornish

In its observation band, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will simultaneously observe stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) signals of different origins; orbitally modulated waveforms from galactic white dwarf…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Guillaume Boileau , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen , Neil J. Cornish , Renate Meyer

Within its observational band the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will simultaneously observe orbital modulated waveforms from Galactic white dwarf binaries, a binary black hole produced gravitational-wave background, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Guillaume Boileau , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen , Neil J. Cornish , Renate Meyer

The detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves could significantly impact our understanding of the physical processes that shaped the early Universe. The challenge lies in separating the cosmological signal from other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Królak , Gijs Nelemans

We present a Monte Carlo simulation for the response of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to the galactic gravitational wave background. The simulated data streams are used to estimate the number and type of binary systems that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Seth E. Timpano , Louis J. Rubbo , Neil J. Cornish

We discuss the sensitivity to anisotropies of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In addition to the unresolved galactic binaries as the most promising GWB source of the planned Laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya

We study the anisotropies of the Galactic confusion noise background and its effects on LISA data analysis. LISA has two data streams of the gravitational waves signals relevant for low frequency regime. Due to the anisotropies of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Naoki Seto

We present the steps to forecast the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to both a stochastic gravitational wave background and deterministic wave sources. We show how to use these expressions to estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-09 Tristan L. Smith , Robert Caldwell

First order phase transitions in the early universe could produce a gravitational-wave background that might be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Such an observation would provide evidence for physics beyond the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Guillaume Boileau , Nelson Christensen , Chloe Gowling , Mark Hindmarsh , Renate Meyer

We propose a diagnostic tool for future analyses of stochastic gravitational wave background signals of extra-galactic origin in LISA data. Next-generation gravitational wave detectors hold the capability to track unresolved gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , David Maibach

Single gravitational-wave detectors face inherent limitations in detecting the anisotropy of the stochastic background. In this work, we explore the sensitivity to anisotropic backgrounds with a network of space-borne detectors. We find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-22 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Zhi-Yuan Li , En-Kun Li , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Krolak , Gijs Nelemans

The observed microwave background anisotropies in combination with the theory of quantum mechanically generated cosmological perturbations predict a well measurable amount of relic gravitational waves in the frequency intervals tested by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. P. Grishchuk

We develop a numerical scheme to make a high-frequency skymap of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. Based on the cross-correlation technique, the intensity distribution of anisotropic GWB can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Atsushi Taruya
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