Blind Source Separation in 3rd Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Third generation and future upgrades of current gravitational-wave detectors will present exquisite sensitivities which will allow to detect a plethora of gravitational wave signals. Hence, a new problem to be solved arises: the detection and parameter estimation of overlapped signals. The problem of separating and identifying two signals that overlap in time, space or frequency is something well known in other fields (e.g. medicine and telecommunication). Blind source separation techniques are all those methods that aim at separating two or more unknown signals. This article provides a methodological review of the most common blind source separation techniques and it analyses whether they can be successfully applied to overlapped gravitational wave signals or not, while comparing the limits and advantages of each method.