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脉冲星定时阵中偏心超大质量双星黑洞的参数估计偏差:忽略脉冲星项引起的偏差

Parameter-Estimation Biases for Eccentric Supermassive Binary Black Holes in Pulsar Timing Arrays: Biases Caused by Ignored Pulsar Terms

Jie-Wen Chen, Yan Wang

摘要:

超大质量双黑洞(SMBBH)产生的连续纳赫兹引力波(GW)可以被编码到脉冲星定时阵列(PTA)的定时残差中。对于每个脉冲星,残差实际上包含一个地球项和一个脉冲星项,但通常只有地球项被认为是信号,脉冲星项被丢弃,这导致SMBBH的参数估计偏差(PEBs),目前还没有方便的评估PEBs。在这篇文章中,我们制定了一个偏心轨道SMBBH的PEBs。在我们的分析中,脉冲星项的未知相位被视为服从均匀分布$U[0,2π)$的随机变量,由于脉冲星的距离通常测量不良。我们的分析结果与Zhu et.(2016)在$1.5σ$水平,这意味着我们的公式在估计PEB的大小方面是有效的。此外,我们发现对于两个参数--地球项相位$φ^E$和轨道偏心率$e$,它们的偏差$Δφ^E$和$Δe/e$随着$e$的增加而单调减小,这部分证实了我们以前的工作Chen & Zhang(2018)中的假设。此外,我们还计算了最近观察到的共谱过程(CSP)所造成的PEBs,发现如果连续GW的应变振幅显着更强($3$倍大,在我们的情况下)比随机GW背景,从脉冲星条款的PEBs大于从CSP。我们的公式可以方便地应用于未来的PTA数据分析。

英文摘要:

The continuous nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) from individual supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) can be encoded in the timing residuals of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). For each pulsar, the residuals actually contain an Earth term and a pulsar term, but usually only the Earth term is considered as signal and the pulsar term is dropped, which leads to parameter-estimation biases (PEBs) for the SMBBHs, and currently there are no convenient evaluations of the PEBs. In this article, we formulate the PEBs for a SMBBH with an eccentric orbit. In our analyses, the unknown phases of pulsar terms are treated as random variables obeying the uniform distribution $U[0,2π)$, due to the fact that pulsar distances are generally poorly measured. Our analytical results are in accordance with the numerical work by Zhu et. al. (2016) at $1.5σ$ level, implying that our formulae are effective in estimating magnitudes of the PEBs. Additionally, we find that for two parameters -- Earth term phase $φ^E$ and orbital eccentricity $e$, their biases $Δφ^E$ and $Δe/e$ monotonically decrease as $e$ increases, which partly confirms a hypothesis in our previous work Chen & Zhang (2018). Furthermore, we also calculate the PEBs caused by the recently observed common-spectrum process (CSP), finding that if the strain amplitude of the continuous GW is significantly stronger ($3$ times larger, in our cases) than the stochastic GW background, the PEBs from pulsar terms are larger than those from the CSP. Our formulae of the PEBs can be conveniently applied in the future PTA data analyses.

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