Classifying LISA gravitational wave burst signals using Bayesian evidence

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/7/075010zbMATH Open1187.83028arXiv0911.0288OpenAlexW1994940067MaRDI QIDQ3558424FDOQ3558424

Authors: Farhan Feroz, Jonathan Gair, Philip Graff, M. P. Hobson, A. N. Lasenby 

Publication date: 5 May 2010

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

Abstract: We consider the problem of characterisation of burst sources detected with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) using the multi-modal nested sampling algorithm, MultiNest. We use MultiNest as a tool to search for modelled bursts from cosmic string cusps, and compute the Bayesian evidence associated with the cosmic string model. As an alternative burst model, we consider sine-Gaussian burst signals, and show how the evidence ratio can be used to choose between these two alternatives. We present results from an application of MultiNest to the last round of the Mock LISA Data Challenge, in which we were able to successfully detect and characterise all three of the cosmic string burst sources present in the release data set. We also present results of independent trials and show that MultiNest can detect cosmic string signals with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as low as ~7 and sine-Gaussian signals with SNR as low as ~8. In both cases, we show that the threshold at which the sources become detectable coincides with the SNR at which the evidence ratio begins to favour the correct model over the alternative.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0288

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavesstring and superstring theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical astronomy (85A35) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Cited In (2)

• Bayesian detection of unmodeled bursts of gravitational waves
• Searches for cosmic-string gravitational-wave bursts in Mock LISA Data

Uses Software

• MultiNest

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