2005/07/26 by Luc Blanchet, Blanchet, Luc
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0507111
8 pages, in "Images de la Physique 2005", eds. E. Falgarone et al., Editions du C.N.R.S., p. 51, 2005 (in French)
arxiv created 2005/07/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The theory of general relativity, which is extremely well verified by classic tests in the solar system as well as by the radiation of the binary pulsar, is one of the fundamental tools of nowadays astrophysics. It permits the computation of the gravitational wave form emitted during the inspiral phase of binary systems of neutron stars and black holes. Based on the so-called post-Newtonian approximation (developped to high order), the prediction of general relativity is used as a "template" for searching and analysing the signals in the network of gravitational-wave detectors VIRGO/LIGO.