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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 87, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.024035
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H008438/1, ST/I001085/1]
- Royal Society
- STFC [ST/I001085/1, ST/J000345/1, Gravitational Waves, ST/I006285/1, ST/J000361/1, ST/H008438/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H008438/1, ST/I006285/1, ST/I006285/1 Gravitational Waves, ST/I001085/1, ST/J000345/1, ST/J000345/1 Gravitational Waves, Gravitational Waves, ST/J000361/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We explore the degeneracy between mass and spin in gravitational waveforms emitted by black-hole-binary coalescences. We focus on spin-aligned waveforms and obtain our results using phenomenological models that were tuned to numerical-relativity simulations. A degeneracy is known for low-mass binaries (particularly neutron-star binaries), where gravitational-wave detectors are sensitive to only the inspiral phase, and the waveform can be modeled by post-Newtonian theory. Here, we consider black-hole binaries, where detectors will also be sensitive to the merger and ringdown, and demonstrate that the degeneracy persists across a broad mass range. At low masses, the degeneracy is between mass ratio and the black-hole spins, with chirp mass accurately determined. At higher masses, the degeneracy persists but is not so clearly characterized by constant chirp mass as the merger and ringdown become more significant. We consider the importance of this degeneracy both for performing searches (including searches where only nonspinning templates are used) and in parameter extraction from observed systems. We compare observational capabilities between the early (similar to 2015) and final (2018 onwards) versions of the Advanced LIGO detector.
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