2006/04/30 by Chris Van Den Broeck · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/13/l01
published as Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) L51-L58 · 9 pages, 1 figure
arxiv created 2006/05/24 · openalex publication_date 2006/06/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for quasi-circular binary black hole inspirals computed from restricted post-Newtonian waveforms are compared with those attained by more complete post-Newtonian signals, which are superpositions of amplitude-corrected harmonics of the orbital phase. It is shown that if one were to use the best available amplitude-corrected waveforms for detection templates, one should expect SNRs in actual searches to be significantly lower than those suggested by simulations based purely on restricted waveforms.