STARS AS GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS

  • KHOSROSHAHI H. G. (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences) ;
  • SOBOUTI Y. (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Department of physics, Shiraz University, Center for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, AEOI)
  • Published : 1996.12.01

Abstract

In attempts to detect gravitational waves, the response of some celestial systems such as the earth[l] or binary systems[2] to such waves have been investigated. Following this line of thought, here we study the possibility of excitation of the oscillation modes of a polytropic star by gravitational radiation and calculate the relevant absorption cross sections.

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