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Source Triacking for Sco X-1
Class. Quantum. Grav (2008)
  • K Hayama
  • S Desai
  • S Mohanty
  • M Rakhmanov
  • Tiffany Summerscales, Andrews University
  • S Yoshida
Abstract

Sco X-1, the brightest low mass X-ray binary, is likely to be a source for gravitational wave emission. In one mechanism, emission of a gravitational wave arrests the increase in spin frequency due to the accretion torque in a low mass X-ray binary. Since the gravitational waveform is unknown, a detection method assuming no apriori knowledge of the signal is preferable. In this paper, we propose to search for a gravitational wave from Sco X-1 using a {{\it source tracking}} method based on a coherent network analysis. In the method, we combine data from several interferometric gravitational wave detectors taking into account of the direction to Sco X-1, and reconstruct two polarization waveforms at the location of Sco X-1 in the sky as Sco X-1 is moving. The source tracking method opens up the possibility of searching for a wide variety of signals. We perform Monte Carlo simulations and show results for bursts, modeled, short duration periodic sources using a simple excess power and a matched filter method on the reconstructed signals.

Publication Date
2008
Citation Information
K Hayama, S Desai, S Mohanty, M Rakhmanov, et al.. "Source Triacking for Sco X-1" Class. Quantum. Grav Vol. 25 (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tiffany_summerscales/3/