Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries: Accuracy of the post-Newtonian waveforms

1998/01/12 by Eric Poisson, Poisson, Eric
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9801038

3 pages, ReVTeX, to appear in the Proceedings of the Second Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, held in Orsay, France

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Abstract

The accuracy of the post-Newtonian waveforms, both in standard and Pade form, is determined by computing their matched-filtering overlap integral with a reference waveform obtained from black-hole perturbation theory.

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