Gravitational waves from stellar encounters
Astrophysics
2010-04-21 v2
Abstract
The emission of gravitational waves from a system of massive objects interacting on elliptical, hyperbolic and parabolic orbits is studied in the quadrupole approximation. Analytical expressions are then derived for the gravitational wave luminosity, the total energy output and gravitational radiation amplitude. A crude estimate of the expected number of events towards peculiar targets (i.e. globular clusters) is also given. In particular, the rate of events per year is obtained for the dense stellar cluster at the Galactic Center.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.4117,
title = {Gravitational waves from stellar encounters},
author = {Salvatore Capozziello and Mariafelicia De Laurentis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4117},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
14 pages, 3 figures