Source redshifts from gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star mergers

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Messenger, C ^a   Takami, Kentaro ^b,c   Gossan, Sarah ^d   Rezzolla, Luciano ^b,c   Sathyaprakash, B S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Cosmology; Gravitation

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NEUTRONS; SIGNALING; STARS;

BAYESIAN PARAMETER ESTIMATION; BINARY NEUTRON STARS; CONFIDENCE REGION; COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES; EQUATION OF STATE; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTION; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SIGNALS; THIRD GENERATION;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 84921444809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041004     Document Type: Article

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