Listening for Ringing Black Holes
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The gravitational radiation produced by binary black holes during their inspiral, merger, and ringdown phases is a promising candidate for detection by the first or second generation of kilometer-scale interferometric gravitational wave antennas. Waveforms for the last phase, the quasinormal ringing, are well understood. I discuss the feasibility of detection of the quasinormal ringing of a black hole based on an analysis of the Caltech 40-meter interferometer data.
8 pages LaTeX, 1 eps figure included with epsfig, based on a talk given at the 7th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
8 pages LaTeX, 1 eps figure included with epsfig, based on a talk given at the 7th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics