Impact of coalescence signals on the search for continuous gravitational waves with Einstein Telescope
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| author | Codazzo, Elena Mirasola, Lorenzo Di Giovanni, Matteo Astone, Pia D'Antonio, Sabrina Palomba, Cristiano Lazzaro, Claudia Contu, Andrea Riggio, Alessandro Sanna, Andrea |
| author_facet | Codazzo, Elena Mirasola, Lorenzo Di Giovanni, Matteo Astone, Pia D'Antonio, Sabrina Palomba, Cristiano Lazzaro, Claudia Contu, Andrea Riggio, Alessandro Sanna, Andrea |
| contents | The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole-neutron star systems. As detector sensitivity improves, the superposition of these signals is expected to form an astrophysical background that becomes increasingly relevant for future observatories. In third generation detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope (ET), this background will be most prominent at low frequencies, potentially affecting the search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from spinning neutron stars. In this work, we evaluate the impact of the CBC background on CW detection using the Frequency-Hough pipeline, with a focus on the low-frequency performance in ET sensitivity conditions. Through realistic simulations of the unresolved CBC background, we find that it acts as an additional noise source, most strongly affecting the detection of CW signals around 7 Hz, worsening the FH sensitivity by about 7-10%. |
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| spellingShingle | Impact of coalescence signals on the search for continuous gravitational waves with Einstein Telescope Codazzo, Elena Mirasola, Lorenzo Di Giovanni, Matteo Astone, Pia D'Antonio, Sabrina Palomba, Cristiano Lazzaro, Claudia Contu, Andrea Riggio, Alessandro Sanna, Andrea General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole-neutron star systems. As detector sensitivity improves, the superposition of these signals is expected to form an astrophysical background that becomes increasingly relevant for future observatories. In third generation detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope (ET), this background will be most prominent at low frequencies, potentially affecting the search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from spinning neutron stars. In this work, we evaluate the impact of the CBC background on CW detection using the Frequency-Hough pipeline, with a focus on the low-frequency performance in ET sensitivity conditions. Through realistic simulations of the unresolved CBC background, we find that it acts as an additional noise source, most strongly affecting the detection of CW signals around 7 Hz, worsening the FH sensitivity by about 7-10%. |
| title | Impact of coalescence signals on the search for continuous gravitational waves with Einstein Telescope |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12249 |