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Is there potential complementarity between LISA and pulsar timing?

Authors :
Pitkin, Matthew
Clark, James
Hendry, Martin A.
Heng, Ik Siong
Messenger, Chris
Toher, Jennifer
Woan, Graham
Source :
J.Phys.Conf.Ser.122:012004,2008
Publication Year :
2008

Abstract

We open the discussion into how the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) observations of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) mergers (in the mass range ~10^6-10^8 Msun) may be complementary to pulsar timing-based gravitational wave searches. We consider the toy model of determining pulsar distances by exploiting the fact that LISA SMBH inspiral observations can place tight parameter constraints on the signal present in pulsar timing observations. We also suggest, as a future path of research, the use of LISA ring-down observations from the most massive (>~ a few 10^7 Msun) black-hole mergers, for which the inspiral stage will lie outside the LISA band, as both a trigger and constraint on searches within pulsar timing data for the inspiral stage of the merger.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted for the proceedings of the Amaldi 7 conference

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
J.Phys.Conf.Ser.122:012004,2008
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.0802.2460
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/122/1/012004