Strategies for observing extreme mass ratio inspirals

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/19/S16zbMATH Open1117.85316arXivgr-qc/0604115MaRDI QIDQ3418693FDOQ3418693

Authors: Steve Drasco 

Publication date: 5 February 2007

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I review the status of research, conducted by a variety of independent groups, aimed at the eventual observation of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) with gravitational wave detectors. EMRIs are binary systems in which one of the objects is much more massive than the other, and which are in a state of dynamical evolution that is dominated by the effects of gravitational radiation. Although these systems are highly relativistic, with the smaller object moving relative to the larger at nearly light-speed, they are well described by perturbative calculations which exploit the mass ratio as a natural small parameter. I review the use of such approximations to generate waveforms needed by data analysis algorithms for observation. I also briefly review the status of developing the data analysis algorithms themselves. Although this article is almost entirely a review of previous work, it includes (as an appendix) a new analytical estimate for the time over which the influence of radiation on the binary itself is observationally negligible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604115

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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