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What Fraction of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals That Merge After the LISA Mission Ends Are Detectable?
Daniel J. Oliver, Aaron D. Johnson, Jonathan E. Thompson +1
Stellar-mass compact objects spiraling into massive black holes in galactic nuclei (referred to as "extreme-mass-ratio inspirals", or EMRIs) will be an important class of sources f…
Non-local parameter degeneracy in the intrinsic space of gravitational-wave signals from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
Alvin J. K. Chua, Curt J. Cutler
Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals will be prized sources for the upcoming space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA. The hunt for these is beset by many open theoretical and compu…
Detectability of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Multiband Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Karan Jani, Deirdre Shoemaker, Curt Cutler
The direct measurement of gravitational waves is a powerful tool for surveying the population of black holes across the universe. The first gravitational wave catalog from LIGO has…
Model Waveform Accuracy Requirements for the Allen Discriminator
Lee Lindblom, Curt Cutler
This paper derives accuracy standards for model gravitational waveforms required to ensure proper use of the Allen discriminator in gravitational wave (GW) data analysis. The…
Free-flight experiments in LISA Pathfinder
M. Armano, H. Audley, G. Auger +89
The LISA Pathfinder mission will demonstrate the technology of drag-free test masses for use as inertial references in future space-based gravitational wave detectors. To accomplis…
A directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +891
We present results of a search for continuously-emitted gravitational radiation, directed at the brightest low-mass X-ray binary, Scorpius X-1. Our semi-coherent analysis covers 10…
New Coordinates for the Amplitude Parameter Space of Continuous Gravitational Waves
John T. Whelan, Reinhard Prix, Curt J. Cutler +1
The parameter space for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) can be divided into amplitude parameters (signal amplitude, inclination and polarization angles describing the orientat…
The Gravitational-Wave Discovery Space of Pulsar Timing Arrays
Curt Cutler, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Michele Vallisneri +2
Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) as gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. To date, that interest has focused mainly on three particula…
Outlook for detection of GW inspirals by GRB-triggered searches in the Advanced detector era
Alexander Dietz, Nickolas Fotopoulos, Leo Singer +1
Short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to originate from the coalescence of two neutron stars (NSs) or a NS and a black hole (BH). If this scenario is correct, then short…
An improved, "phase-relaxed" F-statistic for gravitational-wave data analysis
Curt Cutler
Rapidly rotating, slightly non-axisymmetric neutron stars emit nearly periodic gravitational waves (GWs), quite possibly at levels detectable by ground-based GW interferometers. We…
Searches for Cosmic-String Gravitational-Wave Bursts in Mock LISA Data
Michael I. Cohen, Curt Cutler, Michele Vallisneri
A network of observable, macroscopic cosmic (super-)strings may have formed in the early universe. If so, the cusps that generically develop on cosmic-string loops emit bursts of g…
Will Einstein Have the Last Word on Gravity?
Bernard F. Schutz, Joan Centrella, Curt Cutler +1
This is a whitepaper submitted to the 2010 Astronomy Decadal Review process, addressing the potential tests of gravity theory that could be made by observations of gravitational wa…
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3
Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, Matthew J. Benacquista +27
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, t…
Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge
Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, Matthew J. Benacquista +40
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a program to demonstrate LISA data-analysis capabilities and to encourage their development. Each round of challenges consists of several data set…
Gaussianity of LISA's confusion backgrounds
Etienne Racine, Curt Cutler
Data analysis for the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be complicated by the huge number of sources in the LISA band. Throughout much of the band, galactic w…
LISA detections of massive black hole inspirals: parameter extraction errors due to inaccurate template waveforms
Curt Cutler, Michele Vallisneri
The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect the inspiral and merger of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at z <~ 5 with signal-to-noise ratios (SN…
A Three-Stage Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in LISA Data
Duncan A. Brown, Jeff Crowder, Curt Cutler +2
Gravitational waves from the inspiral and coalescence of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) binaries with masses ~10^6 Msun are likely to be among the strongest sources for the Laser I…
An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges
K A Arnaud, S Babak, J G Baker +10
The Mock Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data-analysis tools and capabilities and of demonstrating the technical readiness alread…
Report on the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges
K. A. Arnaud, G. Auger, S. Babak +42
The Mock LISA Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data analysis tools and capabilities, and demonstrating the technical readiness alr…
Using LISA EMRI sources to test off-Kerr deviations in the geometry of massive black holes
Leor Barack, Curt Cutler
Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into black holes are especially interesting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. We investigate whether the emit…
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: An overview
K. A. Arnaud, S. Babak, J. G. Baker +8
The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purposeof fostering the development of…
Coherent searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: results from the second LIGO science run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
We carry out two searches for periodic gravitational waves using the most sensitive few hours of data from the second LIGO science run. The first search is targeted at isolated, pr…
Improved Stack-Slide Searches for Gravitational-Wave Pulsars
Curt Cutler, Iraj Gholami, Badri Krishnan
We formulate and optimize a computational search strategy for detecting gravitational waves from isolated, previously-unknown neutron stars (that is, neutron stars with unknown sky…
The generalized F-statistic: multiple detectors and multiple GW pulsars
Curt Cutler, Bernard F. Schutz
The F-statistic, derived by Jaranowski, Krolak & Schutz (1998), is the optimal (frequentist) statistic for the detection of nearly periodic gravitational waves from known neutron s…