Neil J Cornish and Shane L Larson 2003 Class. Quantum Grav. 20 S163 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/10/319
Neil J Cornish1 and Shane L Larson2
Show affiliationsThe orbital motion of the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) produces amplitude, phase and frequency modulations of a gravitational wave signal. The modulations have the effect of spreading a monochromatic gravitational wave signal across a range of frequencies. The modulations encode useful information about the source location and orientation, but they also have the deleterious effect of spreading a signal across a wide bandwidth, thereby reducing the strength of the signal relative to the instrument noise. We describe a simple method for removing the dominant, Doppler component of the signal modulation. The demodulation reassembles the power from a monochromatic source into a narrow spike and provides a quick way to determine the sky locations and frequencies of the brightest gravitational wave sources.
Issue 10 (21 May 2003)
Received 18 September 2002
Published 28 April 2003
Neil J Cornish and Shane L Larson 2003 Class. Quantum Grav. 20 S163
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