GRAVITATIONAL-RADIATION AND STEADY-STATE DISTRIBUTION OF BINARY ORBITS - APPLICATION TO HIGH-MASS BINARY PULSARS

By assuming the existence of a quasi-steady state of binary orbits of collapsed objects, a simple theory, relating the initial input distrib ution of semimajor axis and eccentricity to the steady-state distribut ion of these parameters, is formulated under the working hypothesis th at the mechanism of variation of the above parameters is the emission of gravitational waves. In order to illustrate this, a plausible stead y-state distribution for the case of high-mass binary pulsars is obtai ned.