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通过脉冲星定时的四极矩相关性估计引力波的方向

Direction-of-arrival estimation of a gravitational wave by correlations between quadrupole moments of pulsar timing data

Graduate School of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University(弘前大学理工学研究科)

Taichi Ueyama, Hodaka Tamura, Hideki Asada

AI总结:

通过分析脉冲星定时四极矩的相关性,研究利用秩为2的矩阵估计引力波方向,探讨了未来平方公里阵列的观测能力。

摘要:

我们能否从脉冲星定时数组观测中估计引力波信号的到达方向?本文针对逆问题,考虑由于来自主导孤立源(如超大质量黑洞双星)的引力波在各向同性随机背景上的四极矩。讨论了四极矩之间的相关性,其中考虑了全天空上脉冲星对之间的相关性。相关性结果呈现出一个三维无迹矩阵,其秩为2,可以与引力波的投影张量密切相关。因此,我们证明了秩为2的矩阵允许估计引力波的到达方向。在期待即将到来的平方公里阵列之际,角分辨率以及到达方向估计误差也进行了检验。

英文摘要:

Can we estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of a gravitational wave (GW) signal from pulsar timing array observations? The present paper addresses the inverse problem, for which we consider quadrupole moments of pulsar timing data due to GWs from a dominant isolated source such as a binary of supermassive black holes over an isotropic stochastic background. Correlations between the quadrupole moments are discussed as a possible alternative to the matched filtering technique, where the correlations between pulsar pairs over the full sky are taken into account. The correlations turn out to be in the form of a three-dimensional traceless matrix with rank 3 that can be closely related with a projection tensor for the GW. Thereby, we demonstrate that the rank-3 matrix allows to estimate the DOA of the GW without assuming a template bank nor a priori Gaussian noise. A mean over the celestial sphere is adopted instead of the pulsar averaging. A weighted average is used for a non-uniform distribution of pulsars on the sky, for which the Voronoi tessellation is employed to numerically calculate an area-weighted mean. In expectation of the forthcoming Square Kilometre Array, DOA estimation errors are also examined.

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