Improved filters for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries
Abstract
The order of the post-Newtonian expansion needed to extract in a reliable and accurate manner the fully general relativistic gravitational wave signal from inspiraling compact binaries is explored. A class of approximate wave forms, called P-approximants, is constructed based on the following two inputs: (a) the introduction of two new energy-type and flux-type functions e(v) and f(v), respectively, (b) the systematic use of the Padé approximation for constructing successive approximants of e(v) and f(v). The new P-approximants are not only more effectual (larger overlaps) and more faithful (smaller biases) than the standard Taylor approximants, but also converge faster and monotonically. The presently available (v/c)^5-accurate post-Newtonian results can be used to construct P-approximate wave forms that provide overlaps with the exact wave form larger than 96.5%, implying that more than 90% of potential events can be detected with the aid of P-approximants as opposed to a mere 10–15 % that would be detectable using standard post-Newtonian approximants.
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©1997 The American Physical Society. Received 19 August 1997. It is a pleasure to thank Eric Poisson for providing the numerical test mass flux. B.R.I. thanks the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, University of Wales Cardiff, and the Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, while B.S.S. thanks the Raman Research Institute and Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifique for hospitality during different phases of this work. This work was supported in part by NSF grant PHY-9424337. B.S.S. thanks Kip Thorne and his group for useful conversations.Files
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