An implementation of Galactic white dwarf binary data analysis for MLDC-3.1 [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02384


The space-borne gravitational wave detectors will observe a large population of double white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way. However, the search for double white dwarfs in the gravitational wave data will be time-consuming due to the large number of templates involved and antenna response calculation. In this paper, we implement an iterative combinatorial algorithm to search for double white dwarfs in MLDC-3.1 data. To quickly determine the rough parameters of the target sources, the following algorithms are adopted in a coarse search process: (1) using the downsampling method to reduce the number of original data points; (2) using the undersampling method to speed up the generation of a single waveform template; (3) using the stochastic template bank method to quickly construct the waveform template bank while achieving high coverage of the parameter space; (4) Combining the FFT acceleration algorithm with the stochastic template bank to reduce the calculation time of a single template. A fine search process is used to further determine the parameters of the signals based on the coarse search, for which we adopt the Particle Swarm Optimization. Finally, we detected $\mathcal{O}(10^4)$ double white dwarf signals, validating the feasibility of our method.

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Y. Lu, E. Li, Y. Hu, et. al.
Fri, 6 May 22
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Comments: 16 pages, 15 figures