1. Gravitational wave timing array
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María José Bustamante-Rosell, Joel Meyers, Noah Pearson, Cynthia Trendafilova, and Aaron Zimmerman
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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We describe the design of a gravitational wave timing array, a novel scheme that can be used to search for low-frequency gravitational waves by monitoring continuous gravitational waves at higher frequencies. We show that observations of gravitational waves produced by Galactic binaries using a space-based detector like LISA provide sensitivity in the nanohertz to microhertz band. While the expected sensitivity of this proposal is not competitive with other methods, it fills a gap in frequency space around the microhertz regime, which is above the range probed by current pulsar timing arrays and below the expected direct frequency coverage of LISA. The low-frequency extension of sensitivity does not require any experimental design change to space-based gravitational wave detectors, and can be achieved with the data products that would already be collected by them., 18 pages, 6 figures, comments welcome. Matches version accepted for publication in PhysRevD
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- 2022
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