ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Gravitational waveforms from spinning objects
Authors 1
Affiliations
- Max-Planck-Society, Research Unit "Theory of Gravitation" at the Friedrich-Schiller-University, D-07743 Jena, Germany
Abstract
According to general relativity, a binary consisting of spinning bodies will precess due to spin-orbit and spin-spin coupling. The corresponding modulation of its gravitational waves might be a serious problem for detecting such waves with simple post-Newtonian templates. A new family of templates that takes into account the complications arising from the orbital precession is proposed and its application and performance are discussed.
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Pages:
19-22
Main language of publication
English
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences