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Astrophysics to z approx. 10 with gravitational waves
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Hughes, Scott Lang, Ryan Stebbins, Robin |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | The most useful characterization of a gravitational wave detector's performance is the accuracy with which astrophysical parameters of potential gravitational wave sources can be estimated. One of the most important source types for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is inspiraling binaries of black holes. LISA can measure mass and spin to better than 1% for a wide range of masses, even out to high redshifts. The most difficult parameter to estimate accurately is almost always luminosity distance. Nonetheless, LISA can measure luminosity distance of intermediate-mass black hole binary systems (total mass approx.10(exp 4) solar mass) out to z approx.10 with distance accuracies approaching 25% in many cases. With this performance, LISA will be able to follow the merger history of black holes from the earliest mergers of proto-galaxies to the present. LISA's performance as a function of mass from 1 to 10(exp 7) solar mass and of redshift out to z approx. 30 will be described. The re-formulation of LISA's science requirements based on an instrument sensitivity model and parameter estimation will be described. |
| File Size | 480739 |
| Page Count | 22 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080031653 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6741r98c |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-07-11 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Red Shift Galaxies Stellar Mass Gravitational Waves Lisa Observatory Luminosity Estimating Parameter Identification Black Holes Astronomy Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |