Template bank to search for exotic gravitational wave signals from astrophysical compact binaries

Abstract

Modeled searches of gravitational wave signals from compact binary mergers rely on template waveforms determined by the theory of general relativity (GR). Once a signal is detected, one generally performs the model agnostic test of GR, either looking for consistency between the GR waveform and data or introducing phenomenological deviations to detect the departure from GR. The non-trivial presence of beyond-GR physics can alter the waveform and could be missed by the GR template-based searches. A recent study [Phys. Rev. D 107, 024017 (2023)] targeted the binary black hole merger, assuming the parametrized deviation in lower post-Newtonian terms and demonstrated a mild effect on the search sensitivity. Surprisingly, for the search space of binary neutron star (BNS) systems where component masses range from 1 to $2.4{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ and parametrized deviations span $1\sigma$ width of the deviation parameters measured from the GW170817 event, the GR template bank is highly ineffectual for detecting the non-GR signals. Here, we present a new hybrid method to construct a non-GR template bank for the BNS search space. The hybrid method uses the geometric approach of three-dimensional lattice placement to cover most of the parameter space volume, followed by the random method to cover the boundary regions of parameter space. We find that the non-GR bank size is $\sim$15 times larger than the conventional GR bank and is effectual towards detecting non-GR signals in the target search space.

16 pages, 8 figures

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