Improved filters for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries
Improved filters for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries
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 …