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The last three minutes - Issues in gravitational-wave measurements of coalescing compact binariesGravitational-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 much lower than 10 exp -3, and relativistic effects are large, the wave forms will be far more complex and carry more information than has been expected. Improved wave form modeling is needed as a foundation for extracting the waves' information, but is not necessary for wave detection.
Document ID
19930056744
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Cutler, Curt
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Apostolatos, Theocharis A.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Bildsten, Lars
(California Inst. of Technology Pasadena, United States)
Finn, Lee S.
(Northwestern Univ. Evanston, IL, United States)
Flanagan, Eanna E.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Kennefick, Daniel
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Markovic, Dragoljub M.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Ori, Amos
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Poisson, Eric
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Sussman, Gerald J.
(California Inst. of Technology Pasadena, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
May 17, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Physical Review Letters
Volume: 70
Issue: 20
ISSN: 0031-9007
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
93A40741
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF PHY-92-13508
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-2920
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-2897
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-2936
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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