Measuring gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences. II. The waves’ information and its extraction, with and without templates

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4566-4587

  Hughes, Scott A ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0001143928     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.4566     Document Type: Article

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