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Optimal filtering of the LISA data

arXiv:gr-qc/0401108 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.022003 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.069901

Abstract

The LISA time-delay-interferometry responses to a gravitational-wave signal are rewritten in a form that accounts for the motion of the LISA constellation around the Sun; the responses are given in closed analytic forms valid for any frequency in the band accessible to LISA. We then present a complete procedure, based on the principle of maximum likelihood, to search for stellar-mass binary systems in the LISA data. We define the required optimal filters, the amplitude-maximized detection statistic (analogous to the F statistic used in pulsar searches with ground-based interferometers), and discuss the false-alarm and detection probabilities. We test the procedure in numerical simulations of gravitational-wave detection.

RevTeX4, 28 pages, 9 EPS figures. Minus signs fixed in Eq. (46) and Table II. Corrected discussion of F-statistic distribution in Sec. IV B

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