Unraveling Binary Evolution from Gravitational-Wave Signals and Source Statistics

2010/01/14 by Mandel, Ilya, Kalogera, Vicky, O'Shaughnessy, Richard
#Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1001.2583

Abstract

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are likely to observe gravitational waves from the coalescences of compact-objects binaries. We describe the state of the art for predictions of the rate of compact-binary coalescences and report on initial efforts to develop a framework for converting gravitational-wave observations into improved constraints on astrophysical parameters.

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