Journal article
Hidden Markov model tracking of continuous gravitational waves from a binary neutron star with wandering spin. III. Rotational phase tracking
A Melatos, P Clearwater, S Suvorova, L Sun, W Moran, RJ Evans
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Published : 2021
Abstract
A hidden Markov model (HMM) solved recursively by the Viterbi algorithm can be configured to search for persistent, quasimonochromatic gravitational radiation from an isolated or accreting neutron star, whose rotational frequency is unknown and wanders stochastically. Here an existing HMM analysis pipeline is generalized to track rotational phase and frequency simultaneously, by modeling the intrastep rotational evolution according to a phase-wrapped Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and by calculating the emission probability using a phase-sensitive version of the Bayesian matched filter known as the B-statistic, which is more sensitive than its predecessors. The generalized algorithm tracks sign..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Paul Lasky, Chris Messenger, Keith Riles, Karl Wette, Letizia Sammut, John Whelan, Grant Meadors and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Continuous Wave Working Group for detailed comments and informative discussions. We especially thank Karl Wette for alerting us to the existence of the phase extraction tool XLALEstimatePulsarAmplitudeParams in the LAL suite and Grant Meadors for pointing us to the phasesensitive formulation of the B-statistic in Ref. [23]. The synthetic data for Stage I of the Sco X-1 MDC were prepared primarily by Chris Messenger with the assistance of members of the MDC team [20]. We thank Chris Messenger and Paul Lasky for their assistance in handling the MDC data. We thank the anonymous referees for their constructive feedback. P. Clearwater and L. Sun have been supported by Australian Postgraduate Awards. P. Clearwater was also a recipient of a scholarship from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. L. Sun has been a member of the LIGO Laboratory. LIGO was constructed by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation and operates under cooperative agreement PHY-1764464. Advanced LIGO was built underGrant No. PHY-0823459. The research is supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Grant No. CE170100004.