TY - JOUR
T1 - The last three minutes
T2 - Issues in gravitational-wave measurements of coalescing compact binaries
AU - Cutler, Curt
AU - Apostolatos, Theocharis A.
AU - Bildsten, Lars
AU - Finn, Lee Smauel
AU - Flanagan, Eanna E.
AU - Kennefick, Daniel
AU - Markovic, Dragoljub M.
AU - Ori, Amos
AU - Poisson, Eric
AU - Sussman, Gerald Jay
AU - Thorne, Kip S.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - 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 10-3 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.
AB - 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 10-3 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2984
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2984
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001706230
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 70
SP - 2984
EP - 2987
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 20
ER -