Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-03-22
Class.Quant.Grav.26:225004,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
submitted to Classical & Quantum Gravity. 19 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/26/22/225004
We describe a hybrid evolutionary algorithm that can simultaneously search for multiple supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) inspirals in LISA data. The algorithm mixes evolutionary computation, Metropolis-Hastings methods and Nested Sampling. The inspiral of SMBHBs presents an interesting problem for gravitational wave data analysis since, due to the LISA response function, the sources have a bi-modal sky solution. We show here that it is possible not only to detect multiple SMBHBs in the data stream, but also to investigate simultaneously all the various modes of the global solution. In all cases, the algorithm returns parameter determinations within $5\sigma$ (as estimated from the Fisher Matrix) of the true answer, for both the actual and antipodal sky solutions.
Gair Jonathan R.
Porter Edward K.
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