English

Black holes and gravitational waves: simultaneous discovery by initial laser interferometers

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

Study of gravitational-radiation induced merging rates of relativistic binary stars (double neutron stars; neutron star + black hole; double black holes) shows that the first-generation gravitational wave interferometers with an rms-sensitivity of 102110^{-21} at frequency 100 Hz can detect 10-700 black hole and only 1\sim 1 neutron star coalescences in a 1-year integration time in a wide range of stellar evolution parameters. It is notable that modern concepts of stellar evolution predict that the first detection of gravitational wave will independently discover black holes.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9701134,
  title  = {Black holes and gravitational waves: simultaneous discovery by initial laser interferometers},
  author = {V. M. Lipunov and K. A. Postnov and M. E. Prokhorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9701134},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages with 4 eps figures, LaTeX, revtex.sty + epsf.sty, Accepted for publication in Astronomy Letters ("Pis'ma v Astronomicheskij Zhurnal")

R2 v1 2026-07-22T09:32:04.261Z