Title:	Improved filters for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries
Authors:	Damour, Thibault Iyer, B.R. Sathyaprakash, B.S.
Issue Date:	15-Jan-1998
Publisher:	The American Physical Society
Citation:	Physical Review D, 1998, Vol.57, 885-–907
Abstract:	The order of the post-Newtonian expansion needed to extract in a reliable and accurate manner the fully general relativistic gravitational wave signal from inspiraling compact binaries is explored. A class of approximate wave forms, called P-approximants, is constructed based on the following two inputs: (a) the introduction of two new energy-type and flux-type functions e(v) and f(v), respectively, (b) the systematic use of the Padé approximation for constructing successive approximants of e(v) and f(v). The new P-approximants are not only more effectual (larger overlaps) and more faithful (smaller biases) than the standard Taylor approximants, but also converge faster and monotonically. The presently available (v/c)5-accurate post-Newtonian results can be used to construct P-approximate wave forms that provide overlaps with the exact wave form larger than 96.5%, implying that more than 90% of potential events can be detected with the aid of P-approximants as opposed to a mere 10–15 % that would be detectable using standard post-Newtonian approximants.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1307
ISSN:	1550-2368 (online) 1550-7998
Alternative Location:	http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v57/p885
Copyright:	(1998) by the American Physical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (TP)

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