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Impact of signal clusters in wide-band searches for continuous gravitational waves

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 106, 期 4, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.042009

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  1. National Science Foundation for the international REU program
  2. United States National Science Foundation (NSF) [NSF PHY-1950830, NSF PHY-1460803]
  3. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom
  4. Max-Planck-Society (MPS)
  5. State of Niedersachsen/Germany
  6. Australian Research Council
  7. EuropeanICT (MSIT) in Korea
  8. Academia Sinica (AS)
  9. Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) in Taiwan
  10. European Union
  11. [754496]

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This study investigates the steps of the hierarchical frequency-Hough pipeline for continuous gravitational wave searches, particularly in extreme cases of signal clusters. The results show that a small sensitivity loss may occur when the signal density is high in a narrow frequency range, while a sensitivity gain may be observed in cases with a narrower frequency range. The study demonstrates the robustness of the FH analysis procedure in the presence of moderate-to-large signal clusters.
In this paper we present a study of some relevant steps of the hierarchical frequency-Hough (FH) pipeline, used within the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations for wide-parameter space searches of continuous gravitational waves (CWs) emitted, for instance, by spinning neutron stars (NSs). Because of their weak expected amplitudes, CWs have not been still detected so far. These steps, namely the spectral estimation, the peakmap construction and the procedure to select candidates in the FH plane, are critical as they contribute to determine the final search sensitivity. Here, we are interested in investigating their behavior in the (presently quite) extreme case of signal clusters, due to many and strong CW sources, emitting gravitational waves (GWs) within a small (i.e., < 1 Hz wide) frequency range. This could happen for some kinds of CW sources detectable by next generation detectors, like LISA, Einstein Telescope, and Cosmic Explorer. Moreover, this possibility has been recently raised even for current Earth-based detectors, in some scenarios of CW emission from ultralight boson clouds around stellar mass black holes (BHs). We quantitatively evaluate the robustness of the FH analysis procedure, designed to minimize the loss of single CW signals, under the unusual situation of signal clusters. Results depend mainly on how strong in amplitude and dense in frequency the signals are, and on the range of frequency they cover. We show that indeed a small sensitivity loss may happen in presence of a very high mean signal density affecting a frequency range of the order of one Hertz, while when the signal cluster covers a frequency range of one tenth of Hertz, or less, we may actually have a sensitivity gain. Overall, we demonstrate the FH to be robust even in presence of moderate-to-large signal clusters.

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