Detector orientation matters: Consequences for gravitational-wave background detectability

arXiv:2606.22985 · gr-qc, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, hep-th · Submitted 2026-06-22 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, hep-th

Submitted: 2026-06-22

Updated: 2026-10-06

Comments: 6 pages, 7 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation: Signal processing strategies and sensitivities
• Sensitivity curves for searches for gravitational-wave backgrounds
• Multibaseline gravitational wave radiometry
• Targeted search for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from the galactic millisecond pulsar population
• Planck 2018 results. I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck

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