Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1992-08-25
Phys.Rev.Lett.70:2984-2987,1993
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, no figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters, uses Revtex macros
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2984
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 $\ll 10^{-3}$ 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.
Apostolatos Theocharis A.
Bildsten Lars
Cutler C. C.
Finn Lee Samuel
Flanagan Eanna E.
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