1997/01/20 by Lipunov, V. M., Postnov, K. A., Prokhorov, M. E.
#Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9701134
Study of gravitational-radiation induced merging rates of relativistic binary stars (double neutron stars; neutron star + black hole; double black holes) shows that the first-generation gravitational wave interferometers with an rms-sensitivity of 10-21 at frequency 100 Hz can detect 10-700 black hole and only ∼ 1 neutron star coalescences in a 1-year integration time in a wide range of stellar evolution parameters. It is notable that modern concepts of stellar evolution predict that the first detection of gravitational wave will independently discover black holes.