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An accurate analytical fit to the gravitational-wave inspiral duration for eccentric binaries

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-11-08 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

I present an analytical fit to the duration of the inspiral of two point masses driven by gravitational-wave emission. The fit is accurate to within 3% over the entire range of initial eccentricities from 0 to 0.99999.

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@article{arxiv.2110.09254,
  title  = {An accurate analytical fit to the gravitational-wave inspiral duration for eccentric binaries},
  author = {Ilya Mandel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09254},
  year   = {2021}
}