The LISA verification binaries

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/19/S19MaRDI QIDQ3418886zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Stroeer, A. Vecchio

Publication date 5 February 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605227

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-05) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) guarantees the detection of gravitational waves by monitoring a handful of known nearby galactic binary systems, the so-called ``verification binaries. We consider the most updated information on the source parameters for the thirty more promising verification binaries. We investigate which of them are indeed guaranteed sources for LISA and estimate the accuracy of the additional information that can be extracted during the mission. Our analysis considers the two independent Michelson outputs that can be synthesised from the LISA constellation, and we model the LISA transfer function using the rigid adiabatic approximation. We carry out extensive Monte Carlo simulations to explore the dependency of our results on unknown or poorly constrained source parameters. We find that four sources -- RXJ0806.3+1527, V407 Vul, ES Cet and AM CVn -- are clearly detectable in one year of observation; RXJ0806.3+1527 should actually be observable in less than a week. For these sources LISA will also provide information on yet unknown parameters with an error between approximately 1 percent and 10 percent. Four additional binary systems -- HP Lib, 4U 1820-30, WZ Sge and KPD 1930+2752 -- might also be marginally detectable.

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• Selection effects in resolving Galactic binaries with LISA
• The evolution of compact binary star systems
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• Post-Keplerian waveform model for binary compact object as sources of space-based gravitational wave detector and its implications
• Sources and technology for an atomic gravitational wave interferometric sensor

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