THE LAST 3 MINUTES - ISSUES IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE MEASUREMENTS OF COALESCING COMPACT BINARIES

Authors
CUTLER C APOSTOLATOS TA BILDSTEN L FINN LS FLANAGAN EE KENNEFICK D MARKOVIC DM ORI A POISSON E SUSSMAN GJ THORNE KS
Citation
C. Cutler et al., THE LAST 3 MINUTES - ISSUES IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE MEASUREMENTS OF COALESCING COMPACT BINARIES, Physical review letters, 70(20), 1993, pp. 2984-2987
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
70
Issue
20
Year of publication
1993
Pages
2984 - 2987
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1993)70:20<2984:TL3M-I>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last th ree minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and blac k hole binaries at distances approach cosmological, where the event ra te may be many per year. Because the binary's accumulated orbital phas e can be measured to a fractional accuracy << 10(-3) and relativistic effects axe large, the wave forms will be far more complex and carry m ore information than has been expected. Improved wave form modeling is needed as a foundation for extracting the waves' information, but is not necessary for wave detection.