Probing anisotropies of gravitational-wave backgrounds with a space-based interferometer III: Reconstruction of a high-frequency skymap

Abstract

We develop a numerical scheme to make a high-frequency skymap of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. Based on the cross-correlation technique, the intensity distribution of anisotropic GWB can be directly reconstructed from the time-ordered data of cross-correlation signals, with full knowledge of detector's antenna pattern functions. We demonstrate how the planned space interferometer, LISA, can make a skymap of GWB for a specific example of anisotropic signals. At the frequency higher than the characteristic frequency $f_{\ast }=1/(2\pi L)$, where $L$ is the arm-length of the detector, the reconstructed skymap free from the instrumental noise potentially reaches the angular resolution up to the multipoles $\ell \sim 10$. The presence of instrumental noises degrades the angular resolution. The resultant skymap has angular resolution with multipoles $\ell \le 6\sim 7$ for the anisotropic signals with signal-to-noise ratio S/N$>5$.

15 pages, 10 figures, A version with high-resolution figures is available at http://www-utap.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ataruya/paper/ms_skymap3.pdf

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