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A note on the gravitational wave energy spectrum of parabolic and hyperbolic encounters

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-20 v1

Abstract

The first calculation of the frequency spectrum of gravitational wave mass quadrupole radiation for binaries on hyperbolic orbits was performed in arXiv:1207.5359. Some shortcomings of their derivation were pointed out, but there are still inaccuracies and supplements that we believe are worthwhile to communicate. In this note we provide a consistent and straightforward exposition of the frequency spectrum in the case of hyperbolic encounters and explicitly determine the parabolic limit, which was not possible with the previous treatments.

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@article{arxiv.2001.05187,
  title  = {A note on the gravitational wave energy spectrum of parabolic and hyperbolic encounters},
  author = {Matthias Gröbner and Philippe Jetzer and Maria Haney and Shubhanshu Tiwari and Wako Ishibashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05187},
  year   = {2020}
}