Efficient Estimation of Barycentered Relative Time Delays for Distant Gravitational Wave Sources

Autor: Sauter, Orion, Dergachev, Vladimir, Riles, Keith
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. D 99, 044006 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.044006
Popis: Accurate determination of gravitational wave source parameters relies on transforming between the source and detector frames. All-sky searches for continuous wave sources are computationally expensive, in part, because of barycentering transformation of time delays to a solar system frame. This expense is exacerbated by the complicated modulation induced in signal templates. We investigate approximations for determining time delays of signals received by a gravitational wave detector with respect to the solar system barycenter. A highly non-linear conventional computation is transformed into one that has a pure linear sum in its innermost loop. We discuss application of these results to determination of the maximal useful integration time of continuous wave searches.
Databáze: arXiv