1 Introduction

Gravitational Waves from Gravitational Collapse

Kimberly C. B. New
Los Alamos National Laboratory
MS B220, X-2
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
U.S.A.
e-mail:knew@lanl.gov

(Accepted 13 January 2003)

Abstract:

Gravitational wave emission from the gravitational collapse of massive stars has been studied for more than three decades. Current state-of-the-art numerical investigations of collapse include those that use progenitors with more realistic angular momentum profiles, properly treat microphysics issues, account for general relativity, and examine non-axisymmetric effects in three dimensions. Such simulations predict that gravitational waves from various phenomena associated with gravitational collapse could be detectable with ground-based and space-based interferometric observatories.



1 Introduction

Gravitational Waves from Gravitational Collapse
Kimberly C. B. New
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