Characterizing the Gravitational Wave Signature from Cosmic String Cusps

Details Characterizing the Gravitational Wave Signature from Cosmic String Cusps Characterizing the Gravitational Wave Signature from Cosmic String Cusps

2008-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1590v1

Phys.Rev.D79:043014,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

10 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.79.043014

Cosmic strings are predicted to form kinks and cusps that travel along the string at close to the speed of light. These disturbances are radiated away as highly beamed gravitational waves that produce a burst like pulse as the cone of emission sweeps past an observer. Gravitational wave detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) will be capable of detecting these bursts for a wide class of string models. Such a detection would illuminate the fields of string theory, cosmology, and relativity. Here we develop template based Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques that can efficiently detect and characterize the signals from cosmic string cusps. We estimate how well the signal parameters can be recovered by the advanced LIGO-Virgo network and the LISA detector using a combination of MCMC and Fisher matrix techniques. We also consider joint detections by the ground and space based instruments. We show that a parallel tempered MCMC approach can detect and characterize the signals from cosmic string cusps, and we demonstrate the utility of this approach on simulated data from the third round of Mock LISA Data Challenges (MLDCs).

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