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Close Binaries with Two Compact Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

V. Kalogera*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

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The coalescence of close binary systems with two compact objects (neutron stars and black holes) are considered to be promising sources of gravitational waves for the currently built laser interferometers. Here, I review the current Galactic coalescence estimates derived both theoretically and empirically. I discuss the uncertainties involved as well as ways of obtaining an upper limit to the coalescence rate of two neutron stars.

Type
Part 9. Population and Neutron Star Properties
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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