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A catalogue of potentially bright close binary gravitational wave sourcesThis is a current print-out of results of a survey, undertaken in the spring of 1985, to identify those known binary stars which might produce significant gravitational wave amplitudes at earth, either dimensionless strain amplitudes exceeding a threshold h = 10(exp -21), or energy fluxes exceeding F = 10(exp -12) erg cm(exp -2) s(exp -1). All real or putative binaries brighter than a certain limiting magnitude (calculated as a function of primary spectral type, orbital period, orbital eccentricity, and bandpass) are included. All double degenerate binaries and Wolf-Rayet binaries with known or suspected orbital periods have also been included. The catalog consists of two parts: a listing of objects in ascending order of Right Ascension (Equinox B1950), followed by an index, listing of objects by identification number according to all major stellar catalogs. The object listing is a print-out of the spreadsheets on which the catalog is currently maintained. It should be noted that the use of this spreadsheet program imposes some limitations on the display of entries. Text entries which exceed the cell size may appear in truncated form, or may run into adjacent columns. Greek characters are not available; they are represented here by the first two or three letters of their Roman names, the first letter appearing as a capital or lower-case letter according to whether the capital or lower-case Greek character is represented. Neither superscripts nor subscripts are available; they appear here in normal position and type-face. The index provides the Right Ascension and Declination of objects sorted by catalogue number.
Document ID
19950005821
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Contractor Report (CR)
Authors
Webbink, Ronald F.
(Illinois Univ. Urbana, IL, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1985
Subject Category
Astronomy
Report/Patent Number
NAS 1.26:196934
NASA-CR-196934
Accession Number
95N12234
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-2996
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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