Calculating gravitational waveforms: examples

Document #:

LIGO-T1200476-v3

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

We compute the gravitational waveforms for a few common astrophysical situations, using the equations and conventions of Kip Thorne's famous 1980 review article.

Files in Document:

• GW_examples.pdf (252.6 kB)

Topics:

• GW source predictions

Authors:

• Ian Jones

Notes and Changes:

Added new section on r-modes, with a view to clarifying conventions for amplitude alpha, and its relation with the read (as opposed to complex) velocity field.