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LISA observations of massive black holes binaries using post-Newtonian wave-forms

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We consider LISA observations of in-spiral signals emitted by massive black hole binary systems in circular orbit and with negligible spins. We study the accuracy with which the source parameters can be extracted from the data stream. We show that the use of waveforms retaining post-Newtonian corrections not only to the phase but also the amplitude can drastically improve the estimation of some parameters.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0005059,
  title  = {LISA observations of massive black holes binaries using post-Newtonian wave-forms},
  author = {A. M. Sintes and A. Vecchio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0005059},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex 2 pages, 1 figure. To appear in: "Third Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves". Edt. S. Meshkov; American Institute of Physics