Measuring gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences. I. Signal to noise for inspiral, merger, and ringdown

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4535-4565

  Hughes, Scott A ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.4535     Document Type: Article

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