Detecting an anisotropic gravitational wave background with LISA
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 14 (6) , 1521-1524
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/14/6/021
Abstract
We address the problem of detecting a stochastic background originated by an anisotropic population of sources, like the galactic binaries, by exploiting the amplitude modulation of the signal as the antenna changes its orientation with respect to fixed stars. This modulation, if observed, could help in discriminating the background generated by galactic binaries from the isotropic gravitational wave background generated in the early Universe.Keywords
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