Search for an emission line of a gravitational wave background

In light of the history of research on an electromagnetic wave spectrum, a sharp emission line of gravitational wave background (GWB) would be an interesting observational target. Here we study an efficient method to detect a line GWB by correlating data of multiple ground-based detectors. We find that the width of frequency bin for coarse graining is a critical parameter, and, with the commonly used value 0.25 Hz, the signal-to-noise ratio could be decreased by up to a factor of 6.6, compared with a finer width of 0.02 Hz. By reanalyzing the existing data with a smaller bin width, we might detect a precious line signal from the early Universe.