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Stochastic background from inspiralling double neutron stars

Tania Regimbau

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0701004

Abstract

We review the contribution of extra galactic inspiralling double neutron stars, to the LISA astrophysical gravitational wave foreground. Using recent fits of the star formation rate, we show that sources beyond z*=0.005 contribute to a truly continuous background, which may dominate the LISA instrumental noise in the range 3 10-4 - 1 × 10-2 Hz and overwhelm the galactic WD-WD confusion noise at frequencies larger than νo 2× 10-3.

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