Data for the paper "Detecting dark objects in the Solar System with Gravitational Wave observatories" (Thoss and Loeb, 2025)

The files provided in this respository are provided to supplement the research article "Detecting dark objects in the Solar System with Gravitational Wave observatories", Valentin Thoss & Abraham Loeb, 2025

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Description:

Data from Figure 3 of the publication

The file "r_v300.csv" gives the maximum density to which each observatory is sensitive to a flyby for v=300 km/s. The first column gives the masses in grams. The columns contain the following data:

1: Masses in grams2: R in km for aLIGO 3: R in km for Cosmic Explorer4: R in km for Einstein Telescope5: R in km for LISA6: R in km for BBO7: R in km for DECIGO

The file "r_lisa.csv" / "r_decigo.csv" give the maximum density to which LISA / DECIGO are sensitive to a flyby as a function of the mass and velocity of the perturber. Each row corresponds to one value of the mass, each column corresponds to one value of the velocity. The masses and velocites can be found in the files "mass.csv" and "velocity.csv".

Data from Figure 5 of the publication

The file "rho_v300.csv" gives the minimum density which will lead to a detectable signature within 10 years of observation as a function of the mass of the perturber. The first column gives the mass in grams. The columns contain the following data :

1: Masses in grams2: Density in g/cm^3 for aLIGO 3: Density in g/cm^3for Cosmic Explorer4: Density in g/cm^3 for Einstein Telescope5: Density in g/cm^3 for LISA6: Density in g/cm^3 for BBO7: Density in g/cm^3 for DECIGOThe files "rho_v300_high.csv" and "rho_v300_low.csv" have the same structure and give the low/high value of the range of densites plotted in Figure 5 of the paper. These values correspond to an increase/reduction of the detector noise by a factor of two.