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A simulation of the laser interferometer space antenna data stream from galactic white dwarf binaries

M J Benacquista et al 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 S509-S514   doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/018  Help

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M J Benacquista, J DeGoes and D Lunder
Department of Sciences, Montana State University–Billings, Billings, MT 59101, USA
E-mail: benacquista@msubillings.edu

Abstract. Gravitational radiation from the galactic population of white dwarf binaries is expected to produce a background signal in the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) frequency band. At frequencies below 1 mHz, this signal is expected to be confusion limited and has been approximated as Gaussian noise. At frequencies above about 5 mHz, the signal will consist of separable individual sources. We have produced a simulation of the LISA data stream from a population of 90k galactic binaries in the frequency range between 1 and 5 mHz. This signal is compared with the simulated signal from globular cluster populations of binaries. Notable features of the simulation as well as potential data analysis schemes for extracting information are presented.

PACS numbers: 04.30.−w, 04.80.Nn, 95.55.Ym, 97.20.Rp, 97.80.Fk

Print publication: Issue 5 (7 March 2004)
Received 13 August 2003
Published 5 February 2004

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