Fast premerger detection of massive black-hole binaries in LISA based on time-frequency excess power

The episode discusses a paper detailing a fast method for detecting massive black-hole binaries in LISA using time-frequency excess power. Hosts discuss the high precision of chirp mass and coalescence time estimates, how these preliminary estimates serve as priors for Bayesian modeling, and improvements in handling real-world data noise through coherence tracking.

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