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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2012

Parameter Estimation in Searches for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Vuk Mandic
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Eric Thrane
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Stefanos Giampanis
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Résumé

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. The spectral content of the SGWB carries signatures of the physics that generated it. We present a Bayesian framework for estimating the parameters associated with different SGWB models using data from gravitational-wave detectors. We apply this technique to recent results from LIGO to produce the first simultaneous 95% confidence level limits on multiple parameters in generic power-law SGWB models and in SGWB models of compact binary coalescences. We also estimate the sensitivity of the upcoming second-generation detectors such as Advanced LIGO or Virgo to these models and demonstrate how SGWB measurements can be combined and compared with observations of individual compact binary coalescences in order to build confidence in the origin of an observed SGWB signal. In doing so, we demonstrate a novel means of differentiating between different sources of the SGWB.

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hal-01084617 , version 1 (19-11-2014)

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Vuk Mandic, Eric Thrane, Stefanos Giampanis, Tania Regimbau. Parameter Estimation in Searches for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Physical Review D, 2012, 109 (17), pp.6. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.171102⟩. ⟨hal-01084617⟩
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