Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge

Xiao-Xiao Kou, Muhammed Saleem, Vuk Mandic +2

While the third LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog includes 90 signals, it is believed that $\mathcal{O}(10^5)$ binary black holes merge somewhere in the Universe every…