articlePhysical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmologyMay 28, 2014BRONZE OA

Can environmental effects spoil precision gravitational-wave astrophysics?

EBEnrico BarausseVCVítor CardosoPPPaolo Pani

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Université Paris Cité · +5 more institutions

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Abstract

No, within a broad class of scenarios. Gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy will open a new window on compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes (BHs). It is often stated that large signal-to-noise detections of ringdown or inspiral waveforms can provide estimates of the masses and spins of compact objects to within fractions of a percent, as well as tests of general relativity. These expectations usually neglect the realistic astrophysical environments in which compact objects live. With the advent of GW astronomy, environmental effects on the GW signal will eventually have to be quantified. Here we present a wide survey of the corrections due to these effects in two situations of great interest for…

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  • Physics
  • Accretion (finance)
  • Astrophysics
  • Gravitational wave
  • Gravitation
  • Halo
  • General relativity
  • Black hole (networking)
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