We discuss the sensitivity of the CASSINI experiments to gravitational waves emitted by the in-spiral of compact binaries. We show that the maximum distance reachable by the instrument is ∼100 Mpc. In particular, CASSINI can detect massive black hole binaries with chirp mass \simgt106\Ms in the Virgo Cluster with signal-to-noise ratio between 5 and 30 and possible compact objects of mass \simgt30\Ms orbiting the massive black hole that our Galactic Centre is likely to harbour.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9708033,
title = {Coalescing binaries and Doppler experiments},
author = {A. Vecchio and B. Bertotti and L. Iess},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9708033},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, LaTeX, one postscript figure included. Talk given at the "Second Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves" (CERN, 1-4 July 1997). To be published in the Proceedings (World Scientific, Singapore), eds. E. Coccia et al