State-space analysis of a continuous gravitational wave source with a pulsar timing array: inclusion of the pulsar terms
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| author | Kimpson, Tom Melatos, Andrew O'Leary, Joseph Carlin, Julian B. Evans, Robin J. Moran, William Cheunchitra, Tong Dong, Wenhao Dunn, Liam Greentree, Julian O'Neill, Nicholas J. Suvorova, Sofia Thong, Kok Hong Vargas, Andrés F. |
| author_facet | Kimpson, Tom Melatos, Andrew O'Leary, Joseph Carlin, Julian B. Evans, Robin J. Moran, William Cheunchitra, Tong Dong, Wenhao Dunn, Liam Greentree, Julian O'Neill, Nicholas J. Suvorova, Sofia Thong, Kok Hong Vargas, Andrés F. |
| contents | Pulsar timing arrays can detect continuous nanohertz gravitational waves emitted by individual supermassive black hole binaries. The data analysis procedure can be formulated within a time-domain, state-space framework, in which the radio timing observations are related to a temporal sequence of latent states, namely the intrinsic pulsar spin frequency. The achromatic wandering of the pulsar spin frequency is tracked using a Kalman filter concurrently with the pulse frequency modulation induced by a gravitational wave from a single source. The modulation is the sum of terms proportional to the gravitational wave strain at the Earth and at every pulsar in the array. Here we generalize previous state-space formulations of the pulsar timing array problem to include the pulsar terms; that is, we copy the pulsar terms from traditional, non-state-space analyses over to the state-space framework. The performance of the generalized Kalman filter is tested using astrophysically representative software injections in Gaussian measurement noise. It is shown that including the pulsar terms corrects for previously identified biases in the parameter estimates (especially the sky position of the source) which also arise in traditional matched-filter analyses that exclude the pulsar terms. Additionally, including the pulsar terms decreases the minimum detectable strain by $14\%$. Overall, the study verifies that the pulsar terms do not raise any special extra impediments for the state-space framework, beyond those studied in traditional analyses. The inspiral-driven evolution of the wave frequency at the Earth and at the retarded time at every pulsar in the array is also investigated. |
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| spellingShingle | State-space analysis of a continuous gravitational wave source with a pulsar timing array: inclusion of the pulsar terms Kimpson, Tom Melatos, Andrew O'Leary, Joseph Carlin, Julian B. Evans, Robin J. Moran, William Cheunchitra, Tong Dong, Wenhao Dunn, Liam Greentree, Julian O'Neill, Nicholas J. Suvorova, Sofia Thong, Kok Hong Vargas, Andrés F. High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Pulsar timing arrays can detect continuous nanohertz gravitational waves emitted by individual supermassive black hole binaries. The data analysis procedure can be formulated within a time-domain, state-space framework, in which the radio timing observations are related to a temporal sequence of latent states, namely the intrinsic pulsar spin frequency. The achromatic wandering of the pulsar spin frequency is tracked using a Kalman filter concurrently with the pulse frequency modulation induced by a gravitational wave from a single source. The modulation is the sum of terms proportional to the gravitational wave strain at the Earth and at every pulsar in the array. Here we generalize previous state-space formulations of the pulsar timing array problem to include the pulsar terms; that is, we copy the pulsar terms from traditional, non-state-space analyses over to the state-space framework. The performance of the generalized Kalman filter is tested using astrophysically representative software injections in Gaussian measurement noise. It is shown that including the pulsar terms corrects for previously identified biases in the parameter estimates (especially the sky position of the source) which also arise in traditional matched-filter analyses that exclude the pulsar terms. Additionally, including the pulsar terms decreases the minimum detectable strain by $14\%$. Overall, the study verifies that the pulsar terms do not raise any special extra impediments for the state-space framework, beyond those studied in traditional analyses. The inspiral-driven evolution of the wave frequency at the Earth and at the retarded time at every pulsar in the array is also investigated. |
| title | State-space analysis of a continuous gravitational wave source with a pulsar timing array: inclusion of the pulsar terms |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10087 |