Listening for Ringing Black Holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The gravitational radiation produced by binary black holes during their inspiral, merger, and ringdown phases is a promising candidate for detection by the first or second generation of kilometer-scale interferometric gravitational wave antennas. Waveforms for the last phase, the quasinormal ringing, are well understood. I discuss the feasibility of detection of the quasinormal ringing of a black hole based on an analysis of the Caltech 40-meter interferometer data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9712044,
title = {Listening for Ringing Black Holes},
author = {Jolien D. E. Creighton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9712044},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages LaTeX, 1 eps figure included with epsfig, based on a talk given at the 7th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics