Phys. Rev. D 64, 084011 (2001) [4 pages]Chaos and gravitational wavesReceived 21 June 2001; published 20 September 2001 The gravitational waveforms of a chaotic system will exhibit a sensitive dependence on initial conditions. The waveforms of nearby orbits decohere on a time scale fixed by the largest Lyapunov exponent of the orbit. The loss of coherence has important observational consequences for systems where the Lyapunov time scale is short compared to the chirp time scale. Detectors that rely on matched filtering techniques will be unable to detect gravitational waves from these systems. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.64.084011
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.084011
PACS:
04.80.Nn, 04.30.Db, 05.45.-a
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