The Last Three Minutes: Issues in Gravitational Wave Measurements of Coalescing Compact Binaries
Astrophysics
2009-07-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological, where the event rate may be many per year. Because the binary's accumulated orbital phase can be measured to a fractional accuracy and relativistic effects are large, the waveforms will be far more complex, carry more information, and be far harder to model theoretically than has been expected. Theorists must begin now to lay a foundation for extracting the waves' information.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9208005,
title = {The Last Three Minutes: Issues in Gravitational Wave Measurements of Coalescing Compact Binaries},
author = {Curt Cutler and Theocharis A. Apostolatos and Lars Bildsten and Lee Samuel Finn and Eanna E. Flanagan and Daniel Kennefick and Dragoljubov M. Markovic and Amos Ori and Eric Poisson and Gerald Jay Sussman and Kip S. Thorne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9208005},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters, uses Revtex macros