inference on inspiral signals using lisa mldc data基于丽莎mldc inspiral信号数据推理.pdf

IOP PUBLISHING CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY Class. Quantum Grav. 24 (2007) S521–S527 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/19/S15 Inference on inspiral signals using LISA MLDC data ¨ 1 2,3 4 Christian Rover , Alexander Stroeer , Ed Bloomer , 5 4 4 4 Nelson Christensen , James Clark , Martin Hendry , Chris Messenger , 1 4 4 ¨ 1 Renate Meyer , Matt Pitkin , Jennifer Toher , Richard Umstatter , Alberto Vecchio2,3, John Veitch4 and Graham Woan4 1 Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 School of Physics Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 3 Department of Physics Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA 4 Department of Physics Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 5 Department of Physics Astronomy, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA Received 31 March 2007 Published 19 September 2007 Online at /CQG/24/S521 Abstract In this paper, we describe a Bayesian inference framework for the analysis of data obtained by LISA. We set up a model for binary inspiral signals as defined for the Mock LISA Data Challenge 1.2 (MLDC), and implemented a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to facilitate exploration and integration of the posterior distribution over the nine-dimensional parameter space. Here,