Effects of finite armlength of LISA on analysis of gravitational waves from massive-black-hole binaries
- 9 December 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 66 (12)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.66.122001
Abstract
Response of an interferometer becomes complicated for gravitational wave shorter than the arm-length of the detector, as nature of wave appears strongly. We have studied how parameter estimation for merging massive black hole binaries are affected by this complicated effect in the case of LISA. It is shown that three dimensional positions of some binaries might be determined much better than the past estimations that use the long wave approximation. For equal mass binaries this improvement is most prominent at $\sim 10^5\sol$.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.
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