Enabling multi-messenger astronomy with continuous gravitational waves: early warning and sky localization of binary neutron stars in Einstein Telescope

Abstract

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will provide unprecedented sensitivity to inspiraling binary neutron stars and black holes, enabling detections at the peak of star formation and beyond. However, the signals from these systems will last much longer than those in current detectors, and overlap in both time and frequency, leading to increased computational cost to search for them with standard matched filtering analyses, and a higher probability that they are observed in the presence of non-Gaussian noise. We therefore present a method to search for gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals in next-generation detectors that is computationally efficient and robust against gaps in data collection and noise non-stationarities. Our method finds tracks in the time/frequency plane of the detector that uniquely describe specific inspiraling systems. We find that we could detect $\sim 5$ overlapping, intermediate-strength signals (matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio $\rho \approx 58$) without a sensitivity loss. Additionally, we demonstrate that our method can enable multi-messenger astronomy: using only low frequencies ($2-20$ Hz), we could warn astronomers $\sim 2.5$ hours before a GW170817-like merger at 40 Mpc and provide a sky localization of $\sim 20$ deg${}^2$ using only one ``L'' of Einstein Telescope. Additionally, assuming that primordial black holes exist, we derive projected constraints on the fraction of dark matter they could compose, $f_{\mathrm{PBH}}\sim 10^{-6}-10^{-4}$, for $\sim 1-0.1M_{\odot }$ equal-mass systems, respectively, using a rate suppression factor $f_{\sup }=2.5\times 10^{-3}$. Comparing matched filtering searches to our proposed method at a fixed sensitivity, we find a factor of $\sim 10-50$ speed-up when we begin an analysis at a frequency of 5 Hz up to 12 Hz for a system with a chirp mass between $\sim [1,2]M_{\odot }$.

17 pages, 14 figures, comments welcome!

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