Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989phrvd..40.3194e&link_type=abstract
Physical Review D (Particles and Fields), Volume 40, Issue 10, 15 November 1989, pp.3194-3203
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
118
Scientific paper
A deformed black hole produced in a cataclysmic astrophysical event should undergo damped vibrations which emit gravitational radiation. By fitting the observed gravitational waveform h(t) to the waveform predicted for black-hole vibrations, it should be possible to deduce the hole's mass M and dimensionless rotation parameter a=(c/G)(angular momentum)/M2. This paper estimates the accuracy with which M and a can be determined by optimal signal processing of data from laser-interferometer gravitational-wave detectors. It is assumed that the detector noise has a white spectrum and has been made Gaussian by cross correlation of detectors at different sites. Assuming, also, that only the most slowly damped mode (which has spheroidal harmonic indices l=m=2) is significantly excited-as probably will be the case for a hole formed by the coalescence of a neutron-star binary or a black-hole binary-it is found that the one-sigma uncertainties in M and a are ΔM/M~=2.2ρ-1(1-a)0.45, Δa~=5.9ρ-1(1-a)1.06, where ρ~=hs(πSh)-1/2 (1-a)-0.22. Here ρ is the amplitude signal-to-noise ratio at the output of the optimal filter, hs is the wave's amplitude at the beginning of the vibrations, f is the wave's frequency (the angular frequency ω divided by 2π), and Sh is the frequency-independent spectral density of the detectors' noise. These formulas for ΔM and Δa are valid only for ρ>~10. Corrections to these approximate formulas are given in Table II.
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