Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-01-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
3 pages, no figures
Scientific paper
Inspirals of neutron star-neutron star binaries are a promising source of gravitational waves for gravitational wave detectors like LIGO. During the inspiral, the tidal gravitational field of one of the stars can resonantly excite internal modes of the other star, resulting in a phase shift in the gravitational wave signal. We compute using a Fisher-matrix analysis how large the phase shift must be in order to be detectable. For a $1.4 M_\odot, 1.4 M_\odot$ binary the result is $\sim 8.1, 2.9$ and 1.8 radians, for resonant frequencies of $16, 32$ and 64 Hz. The measurement accuracies of the other binary parameters are degraded by inclusion of the mode resonance effect.
Balachandran Prakash
Flanagan Eanna E.
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