Blas, Diego;
Jenkins, Alexander C;
(2022)
Detecting stochastic gravitational waves with binary resonance.
Physical Review D
, 105
(6)
, Article 064021. 10.1103/physrevd.105.064021.
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Abstract
LIGO and Virgo have initiated the era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy; but in order to fully explore GW frequency spectrum, we must turn our attention to innovative techniques for GW detection. One such approach is to use binary systems as dynamical GW detectors by studying the subtle perturbations to their orbits caused by impinging GWs. We present a powerful new formalism for calculating the orbital evolution of a generic binary coupled to a stochastic background of GWs, deriving from first principles a secularly-averaged Fokker-Planck equation which fully characterises the statistical evolution of all six of the binary's orbital elements. We also develop practical tools for numerically integrating this equation, and derive the necessary statistical formalism to search for GWs in observational data from binary pulsars and laser-ranging experiments.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Detecting stochastic gravitational waves with binary resonance |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevd.105.064021 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.064021 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145284 |
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