An Accurate Analytical Fit to the Gravitational-wave Inspiral Duration for Eccentric Binaries
Abstract
I present an analytical fit to the duration of the inspiral of two point masses driven by gravitational-wave emission. The fit is accurate to within 3% over the entire range of initial eccentricities from 0 to 0.99999.
- Publication:
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Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- October 2021
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2515-5172/ac2d35
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2110.09254
- Bibcode:
- 2021RNAAS...5..223M
- Keywords:
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- Gravitational wave astronomy;
- 675;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- RNAAS 5, 10, 223 (2021)