Assessing the detectability of a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA, using an excess of power approach

Autor:	Karnesis, Nikolaos, Lilley, Marc, Petiteau, Antoine
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/1361-6382/abb637
Popis:	The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will be the first Gravitational Wave observatory in space. It is scheduled to fly in the early 2030's. LISA design predicts sensitivity levels that enable the detection a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background signal. This stochastic type of signal is a superposition of signatures from sources that cannot be resolved individually and which are of various types, each one contributing with a different spectral shape. In this work we present a fast methodology to assess the detectability of a stationary, Gaussian, and isotropic stochastic signal in a set of frequency bins, combining information from the available data channels. We derive an analytic expression of the Bayes Factor between the instrumental noise-only and the signal plus instrumental noise models, that allows us to compute the detectability bounds of a given signal, as a function of frequency and prior knowledge on the instrumental noise spectrum. Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09027 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv