DETECTING A TAIL EFFECT IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EXPERIMENTS

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BLANCHET, L [1 ]
SATHYAPRAKASH, BS [1 ]
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[1] INTERUNIV CTR ASTRON & ASTROPHYS,POONA 411007,MAHARASHTRA,INDIA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1067
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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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. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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