One-stop strategy to search for long-duration gravitational-wave signals
arXiv:2411.18370 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.111.104002
Abstract
Blind continuous gravitational-wave (CWs) searches are a significant computational challenge due to their long duration and weak amplitude of the involved signals. To cope with such problem, the community has developed a variety of data-analysis strategies which are usually tailored to specific CW searches; this prevents their applicability across the nowadays broad landscape of potential CW source. Also, their sensitivity is typically hard to model, and thus usually requires a significant computing investment. We present fasttracks, a massively-parallel engine to evaluate detection statistics for generic CW signals using GPU computing. We demonstrate a significant increase in computational efficiency by parallelizing the brute-force evaluation of detection statistics without using any computational approximations. Also, we introduce a simple and scalable postprocessing which allows us to formulate a generic semianalytic sensitivity estimate algorithm. These proposals are tested in a minimal all-sky search in data from the third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. The strategies discussed here will become increasingly relevant in the coming years as long-duration signals become a standard observation of future ground-based and space-borne detectors.
18 pages, 6 figures, matches published version
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