LISA Source Confusion

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2004-04-30

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404129v2

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 082004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

8 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.082004

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect thousands of gravitational wave sources. Many of these sources will be overlapping in the sense that their signals will have a non-zero cross-correlation. Such overlaps lead to source confusion, which adversely affects how well we can extract information about the individual sources. Here we study how source confusion impacts parameter estimation for galactic compact binaries, with emphasis on the effects of the number of overlaping sources, the time of observation, the gravitational wave frequencies of the sources, and the degree of the signal correlations. Our main findings are that the parameter resolution decays exponentially with the number of overlapping sources, and super-exponentially with the degree of cross-correlation. We also find that an extended mission lifetime is key to disentangling the source confusion as the parameter resolution for overlapping sources improves much faster than the usual square root of the observation time.

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