Computation of gravitational waves from inspiraling binary neutron stars in quasiequilibrium circular orbits : Formulation and calibration

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2001-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0109026v1

Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 104017

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

26 pages, to be published in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.64.104017

Gravitational waves from binary neutron stars in quasiequilibrium circular orbits are computed using an approximate method which we propose in this paper. In the first step of this method, we prepare general relativistic irrotational binary neutron stars in a quasiequilibrium circular orbit, neglecting gravitational waves. We adopt the so-called conformal flatness approximation for a three-metric to obtain the quasiequilibrium states in this paper. In the second step, we compute gravitational waves, solving linear perturbation equations in the background spacetime of the quasiequilibrium states. Comparing numerical results with post Newtonian waveforms and luminosity of gravitational waves from two point masses in circular orbits, we demonstrate that this method can produce accurate waveforms and luminosity of gravitational waves. It is shown that the effects of tidal deformation of neutron stars and strong general relativistic gravity modify the post Newtonian results for compact binary neutron stars in close orbits. We indicate that the magnitude of a systematic error in quasiequilibrium states associated with the conformal flatness approximation is fairly large for close and compact binary neutron stars. Several formulations for improving the accuracy of quasiequilibrium states are proposed.

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