2008/04/30 by I. W. Harry, S. Fairhurst, B. S. Sathyaprakash
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184027
published as Class.Quant.Grav.25:184027,2008 · 11 pages, 2 figures, for GWDAW-12 proceedings edition of CQG
arxiv created 2008/10/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We present a method to search for gravitational waves from coalescing supermassive binary black holes in LISA data. The search utilizes the F-statistic to maximize over, and determine the values of, the extrinsic parameters of the binary system. The intrinsic parameters are searched over hierarchically using stochastically generated multi-dimensional template banks to recover the masses and sky locations of the binary. We present the results of this method applied to the mock LISA data Challenge 1B data set.