Gravitational Radiation from Triple Star Systems
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We have studied the main features of the gravitational radiation generated by an astrophysical system constituted of three compact objects attracting one another (only via gravitational interaction) in such a manner that stable orbits do exist. We have limited our analysis to systems that can be treated with perturbative methods. We show the profile of the gravitational waves emitted by such systems. These results can be useful within the framework of the new gravitational astronomy which will be made feasible by means of the new generation of gravitational detectors such as LISA in a no longer far future.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9906005,
title = {Gravitational Radiation from Triple Star Systems},
author = {Enrico Montanari and Mirco Calura and Pierluigi Fortini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9906005},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages plus 9 postscript figures; revtex; accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A