Blandford’s argument: The strongest continuous gravitational wave signal
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Blandford’s argument: The strongest continuous gravitational wave signal
For a uniform population of neutron stars whose spin-down is dominated by the emission of gravitational radiation, an old argument of Blandford states that the expected gravitational-wave amplitude of the nearest source is independent of the deformation and rotation frequency of the objects. Recent work has improved and extended this argument to set upper limits on the expected amplitude from n...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1550-7998,1550-2368
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.78.044031