Detecting a Tail Effect in Gravitational-Wave Experiments

Luc Blanchet and B. S. Sathyaprakash
Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1067 – Published 13 February 1995
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Abstract

Future gravitational-wave experiments looking at inspiralling compact binaries could achieve the detection of a very small effect of phase modulation induced by the tails of gravitational waves. Once a binary signal has been identified, further analysis of data will provide a measure of the total mass-energy M of the binary, which enters as a factor in this tail effect, by means of optimal signal processing. The detection of the effect will then consist in showing the compatibility of the measured values of M and of the other parameters depending on the two masses of the binary. This illustrates the high potentiality of gravitational-wave experiments for testing general relativity.

  • Received 23 December 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1067

©1995 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Luc Blanchet

  • Département d'Astrophysique Relativiste et de Cosmologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UPR 176), Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France

B. S. Sathyaprakash

  • Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India

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Vol. 74, Iss. 7 — 13 February 1995

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