Coalescing binary neutron stars

Frederic A. Rasio, Stuart L. Shapiro

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Abstract

Coalescing compact binaries with neutron star or black hole components provide the most promising sources of gravitational radiation for detection by the LIGO/VIRGO/GEO/TAMA laser interferometers now under construction. This fact has motivated several different theoretical studies of the inspiral and hydrodynamic merging of compact binaries. Analytic analyses of the inspiral waveforms have been performed in the post-Newtonian approximation. Analytic and numerical treatments of the coalescence waveforms from binary neutron stars have been performed using Newtonian hydrodynamics and the quadrupole radiation approximation. Numerical simulations of coalescing black hole and neutron star binaries are also underway in full general relativity. Recent results from each of these approaches will be described and their virtues and limitations summarized.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)R1-R29
JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
Volume16
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1999

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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