Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries

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1999-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910040v3

Phys.Rev.Lett. 84 (2000) 3515

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Final version published in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3515

Spinning compact binaries are shown to be chaotic in the Post-Newtonian expansion of the two body system. Chaos by definition is the extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and a consequent inability to predict the outcome of the evolution. As a result, the spinning pair will have unpredictable gravitational waveforms during coalescence. This poses a challenge to future gravity wave observatories which rely on a match between the data and a theoretical template.

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