Observing Kinematic Anisotropies of the Stochastic Background with LISA

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Autori principali: Heisenberg, Lavinia, Inchauspé, Henri, Maibach, David
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author Heisenberg, Lavinia
Inchauspé, Henri
Maibach, David
author_facet Heisenberg, Lavinia
Inchauspé, Henri
Maibach, David
contents We propose a diagnostic tool for future analyses of stochastic gravitational wave background signals of extra-galactic origin in LISA data. Next-generation gravitational wave detectors hold the capability to track unresolved gravitational waves bundled into a stochastic background. This composite background contains cosmological and astrophysical contributions, the exploration of which offers promising avenues for groundbreaking new insights into very early universe cosmology as well as late-time structure formation. In this article, we develop a full end-to-end pipeline for the extraction of extra-galactic signals, based on kinematic anisotropies arising from the galactic motion, via full-time-domain simulations of LISA's response to the gravitational wave anisotropic sky. Employing a Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo map-making scheme, multipoles up to $\ell=2$ are recovered for scale-free spectra that support an interpretation as signals originating from cosmic strings in the case of a high signal-to-noise ratio. We demonstrate that our analysis is consistently beating cosmic variance and is robust against statistical and systematic errors. The impact of instrumental noise on the extraction of kinematic anisotropies is investigated, and we establish a detection threshold of $Ω_{GW}\gtrsim 5\times 10^{-8}$ in the presence of instrument-induced noise. Potential avenues for improvement in our methodology are highlighted.
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spellingShingle Observing Kinematic Anisotropies of the Stochastic Background with LISA
Heisenberg, Lavinia
Inchauspé, Henri
Maibach, David
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
We propose a diagnostic tool for future analyses of stochastic gravitational wave background signals of extra-galactic origin in LISA data. Next-generation gravitational wave detectors hold the capability to track unresolved gravitational waves bundled into a stochastic background. This composite background contains cosmological and astrophysical contributions, the exploration of which offers promising avenues for groundbreaking new insights into very early universe cosmology as well as late-time structure formation. In this article, we develop a full end-to-end pipeline for the extraction of extra-galactic signals, based on kinematic anisotropies arising from the galactic motion, via full-time-domain simulations of LISA's response to the gravitational wave anisotropic sky. Employing a Markov-Chain-Monte-Carlo map-making scheme, multipoles up to $\ell=2$ are recovered for scale-free spectra that support an interpretation as signals originating from cosmic strings in the case of a high signal-to-noise ratio. We demonstrate that our analysis is consistently beating cosmic variance and is robust against statistical and systematic errors. The impact of instrumental noise on the extraction of kinematic anisotropies is investigated, and we establish a detection threshold of $Ω_{GW}\gtrsim 5\times 10^{-8}$ in the presence of instrument-induced noise. Potential avenues for improvement in our methodology are highlighted.
title Observing Kinematic Anisotropies of the Stochastic Background with LISA
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14849