Miquel Trias and Alicia M Sintes 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 184032 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184032
LISA parameter estimation of supermassive black holes
Miquel Trias1 and Alicia M Sintes1,2
Show affiliationsWe study parameter estimation of supermassive black holes in the range 105–108M
by LISA using the inspiral full post-Newtonian gravitational waveforms, and we compare the results with those arising from the commonly used restricted post-Newtonian approximation. The analysis shows that for observations of the last year before merger, the inclusion of the higher harmonics clearly improves the parameter estimation. We pay special attention to the source location errors and study the improvement on the percentage of sources for which we could potentially identify electromagnetic counterparts. We also show how the additional harmonics can help to mitigate the impact of losing laser links during the mission.
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Issue 18 (21 September 2008)
Received 28 March 2008, in final form 21 May 2008
Published 2 September 2008
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LISA parameter estimation of supermassive black holes
Miquel Trias and Alicia M Sintes 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 184032
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