A Modelled Cross-Correlation Search for Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1
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- LIGO-G1100830-v1
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- The low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Scorpius X-1 (Sco X-1) is a promising source of gravitational waves in the advanced detector era. A variety of methods have been used or proposed to perform the directed search for gravitational waves from a binary source in a known sky location with unknown frequency and residual uncertainty in binary orbital parameters. These include a fully coherent search over a small amount of data, an unmodelled search for a monochromatic stochastic signal, and a search for a pattern of sidebands arising from the Doppler modulation of the signal by the binary orbit. A modification of the cross-correlation method used in the stochastic search has been proposed, which takes into account the signal model of a rotating neutron star to allow cross-correlation of data from different times. By varying the maximum allowed time lag between cross-correlated segments, one can tune this semicoherent search and strike a balance between sensitivity and computing cost. I describe the details of and prospects for application of this method to searches for Sco X-1 and other LMXBs.
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