Optimal filtering of the LISA data
- 26 July 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 70 (2), 022003
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.70.022003
Abstract
The LISA time-delay-interferometry responses to a gravitational wave signal are rewritten in a form that accounts for the motion of the LISA constellation around the Sun; the responses are given in closed analytic forms valid for any frequency in the band accessible to LISA. We then present a complete procedure, based on the principle of maximum likelihood, to search for stellar-mass binary systems in the LISA data. We define the required optimal filters, the amplitude-maximized detection statistic (analogous to the statistic used in pulsar searches with ground-based interferometers), and discuss the false-alarm and detection probabilities. We then test the procedure in numerical simulations of gravitational-wave detection.
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