Neil J. Cornish & Shane Larson (Caltech) LISA Data Analysis Neil J. Cornish & Shane Larson (Caltech)
Outline The LISA Data Analysis Problem Antenna Pattern and Detector Response Signal Modulation Circular Newtonian Binaries Template Space Topology & Geometry Source Identification Source Subtraction
Data Analysis: LISA LIGO Simple Waveforms High signal/noise (Too) Many sources Complex modulation One detector Complex Waveforms Poor signal/noise Few sources Weak modulation Two detectors (Exception: Spinning Black Hole Binaries) (Exception: Isolated Pulsars)
Detector Response Detector Response Tensor Decompose into Fourier components Detector Response Tensor (Cornish & Larson 2001,Cornish & Rubbo 2002)
Antenna Patterns
LISA’s scan pattern Frequency Modulation Amplitude Modulation
Circular Newtonian Binaries
Signal Modulation AM FM PM (Cutler 1998, valid for )
Template/Parameter Space Topology: Geometry: (Doppler metric)
Sky Location
Frequency and Orbital Phase
Angular Momentum Sphere
Template Count >75% Overlap (>95% Overlap takes ~ ) Fourier space method takes ~ 1 kflop to generate each template. Few hours to generate >95% bank.
gCLEAN Procedure
Single Source
Multiple Sources
Current Work Incorporating full detector response model Using all A,E,T channels Chirping sources Simultaneous multi-source removal