Gravitational Wave Chirp
Binary Inspiral · Post-Newtonian Approximation
Parameters
Mass 1:
30 M☉
Mass 2:
25 M☉
Luminosity Distance:
400 Mpc
Playback Speed:
1×
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Chirp Mass M☉
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T to Merger
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Peak Freq Hz
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Peak h×10⁻²¹
Physics:
Post-Newtonian chirp waveform. The gravitational wave strain is
h(t) = A(t)·cos[Φ(t)] where frequency evolves as
f(t) = (1/π)(5/256·Mc⁻⁵/³·τ⁻³/⁸) with chirp mass
Mc = (m₁m₂)³/⁵/(m₁+m₂)¹/⁵. Frequency sweeps upward until merger at the ISCO.