Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3515–3518 (2000)Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact BinariesReceived 11 October 1999; published in the issue dated 17 April 2000 Spinning compact binaries are shown to be chaotic in the post-Newtonian expansion of the two-body system. Chaos by definition is the extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and a consequent inability to predict the outcome of the evolution. As a result, the spinning pair will have unpredictable gravitational waveforms during coalescence. This poses a challenge to future gravity wave observatories which rely on a match between the data and a theoretical template. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3515
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3515
PACS:
04.30.Db, 04.25.-g, 05.45.Pq, 97.80.Fk
See AlsoComment: Neil J. Cornish, Comment on “Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3980 (2000). Comment: Scott A. Hughes, Comment on “Gravity Waves, Chaos, and Spinning Compact Binaries”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5480 (2000). |
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