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Phys. Rev. D 67, 103001 (2003) [15 pages]

LISA data analysis: Source identification and subtraction

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Neil J. Cornish
Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717

Shane L. Larson
Space Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Received 29 January 2003; published 12 May 2003

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will operate as an AM-FM receiver for gravitational waves. For binary systems, the source location, orientation and orbital phase are encoded in the amplitude and frequency modulation. The same modulations spread a monochromatic signal over a range of frequencies, making it difficult to identify individual sources. We present a method for detecting and subtracting individual binary signals from a data stream with many overlapping signals.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.67.103001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.103001
PACS:
95.55.Ym, 04.30.Db, 95.75.-z