Speaker
Jeremy Wachter
(Wentworth Institute of Technology)
Description
We present recent results on predictions of LISA's ability to determine cosmic string model parameters. These predictions are made using SGWBinner to fit an injected signal for a variety of cosmic string templates (to be discussed in a complementary talk). We find that LISA should be able to accurately and precisely recover the parameters of simple field-theoretic string models in standard cosmology, such as the string tension, over a wide range of values; we discuss regions of parameter-space where this recovery breaks down. We comment briefly on more complicated cosmological models, such as new degrees of freedom, and their impact on LISA's ability to reconstruct string backgrounds.
Primary author
Jeremy Wachter
(Wentworth Institute of Technology)
