LISA PARAMETER ESTIMATION ACCURACY FOR COMPACT BINARIES ON ECCENTRIC ORBITS

摘要

Supermassive black hole binary inspirals are among the most important sources for the future LISA gravitational wave observatory. The scattering of stars and/or the effects of an ambient gaseous accretion disk can lead to a significant initial eccentricity. Taking into account the eccentricity in the waveform improves the parameter estimation accuracy for these sources, as shown using a Fisher matrix analysis.