Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries
Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in numerical relativity now allow us to model the coalescence of two...
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| author | Hughes, Scott A |
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| description | Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in numerical relativity now allow us to model the coalescence of two black holes with no approximations or simplifications. There has also been outstanding progress in our analytical understanding of binaries. We review these developments, examining merging binaries using black hole perturbation theory, post-Newtonian expansions, and direct numerical integration of the field equations. We summarize these approaches and what they have taught us about gravitational waves from compact binaries. We place these results in the context of gravitational-wave generating systems, analyzing the impact gravitational-wave emission has on their sources, as well as what we can learn about them from direct gravitational-wave measurements. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/606882022-09-27T21:42:14Z Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries Hughes, Scott A Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Hughes, Scott A. Hughes, Scott A. Largely motivated by the development of highly sensitive gravitational-wave detectors, our understanding of merging compact binaries and the gravitational waves they generate has improved dramatically in recent years. Breakthroughs in numerical relativity now allow us to model the coalescence of two black holes with no approximations or simplifications. There has also been outstanding progress in our analytical understanding of binaries. We review these developments, examining merging binaries using black hole perturbation theory, post-Newtonian expansions, and direct numerical integration of the field equations. We summarize these approaches and what they have taught us about gravitational waves from compact binaries. We place these results in the context of gravitational-wave generating systems, analyzing the impact gravitational-wave emission has on their sources, as well as what we can learn about them from direct gravitational-wave measurements. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant No. PHY-0449884) United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Grant NNX08AL42G) United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Grant NNG05G105G) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Class of 1956 Career Development Fund 2011-01-21T15:08:05Z 2011-01-21T15:08:05Z 2009-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0066-4146 1545-4282 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60688 Hughes, Scott A. “Gravitational Waves from Merging Compact Binaries.” Annu. Rev. Astro. Astrophys. 47.1 (2011): 107-157. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-1388 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-astro-082708-101711 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Annual Reviews MIT web domain |
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| title | Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries |
| title_full | Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries |
| title_fullStr | Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries |
| title_short | Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries |
| title_sort | gravitational waves from merging compact binaries |
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