Authors: Tania Regimbau Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 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 $3 \simeq 10ˆ{-4}$ - $1 \times 10ˆ{-2}$ Hz and overwhelm the galactic WD-WD confusion noise at frequencies larger than $\nu_o \simeq 2\times 10ˆ{-3}$. |
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