Gravitational Radiation from Neutron Stars and Black Holes

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dc.creatorSopuerta, Carlos F.
dc.date2008-08-04
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dc.descriptionGravitational Wave Astronomy is becoming a reality as Earth-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors reach the design sensitivities and move towards advanced configurations that may lead to gravitational-wave detections in the immediate future. In this contribution, I briefly summarize the basic characteristics of this new area, the discovery prospects and the potential for fundamental physics. Then, I present results of some investigations of two different sources of gravitational waves that are potential targets for present and future planned observatories. First, I will discuss the generation of gravitational radiation by non-linear effects arising from the coupling between radial and non-radial oscillations of neutron stars, which may produce distinctive gravitational-wave signatures. The gravitational radiation emitted by these sources is in the frequency band of Earth-based detectors. And second, I will discuss the gravitational-wave emission during the inspiral of extreme-mass-ratio compact binaries. In this case, the gravitational waves have low frequencies, inside the frequency band of space observatories like LISA.
dc.description14 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the conference "Supernovae: lights in the darkness" (XXIII Trobades Cientifiques de la Mediterrania), October 3-5, 2007, Mao, Menorca (Spain). To appear in Proceedings of Science
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0389
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0389
dc.identifierPoS(SUPERNOVA)026 (2008)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/166348
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleGravitational Radiation from Neutron Stars and Black Holes
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