15–19 Jun 2026
Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Europe/Zurich timezone

Investigating the role of inter-source correlations in LISA data analysis

17 Jun 2026, 11:50
20m
Oral contribution Topical Session 4 - GW

Speaker

Rachele Rosso (University of Trento - University of Pisa)

Description

We investigate how overlapping signals from massive black hole binaries can bias gravitational wave measurements in future missions like LISA. We demonstrate that ignoring these inter-source correlations during individual analysis leads to systematic errors in the recovered physical parameters. These biases are a fundamental risk for any frequency-domain data-reduction technique that disrupts signal interference—including Clenshaw-Curtis quadrature, relative binning, or heterodyning—rather than being limited to a single specific method.

Parallel session Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems

Authors

Rachele Rosso (University of Trento - University of Pisa) Riccardo Buscicchio (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Prof. Walter Del Pozzo (University of Pisa)

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