Building a stochastic template bank for detecting massive black hole binaries

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/19/195011zbMATH Open1151.85330arXiv0801.4070OpenAlexW2012722307MaRDI QIDQ3531202FDOQ3531202

Authors: Stanislav Babak 

Publication date: 21 October 2008

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Coalescence of two massive black holes is the strongest and most promising source for LISA. In fact, gravitational signal from the end of inspiral and merger will be detectable throughout the Universe. In this article we describe the first step in the two-step hierarchical search for gravitational wave signal from the inspiraling massive BH binaries. It is based on the routinely used in the ground base gravitational wave astronomy method of filtering the data through the bank of templates. However we use a novel Monte-Carlo based (stochastic) method to lay a grid in the parameter space, and we use the likelihood maximized analytically over some parameters, known as F-statistic, as a detection statistic. We build a coarse template bank to detect gravitational wave signals and to make preliminary parameter estimation. The best candidates will be followed up using Metropolis-Hasting stochastic search to refine the parameter estimation. We demonstrate the performance of the method by applying it to the Mock LISA data challenge 1B (training data set).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4070

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical astronomy (85A35) Black holes (83C57) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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