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Gravitational wave background from coalescing compact stars in eccentric orbits

V. B. Ignatiev, A. G. Kuranov, K. A. Postnov, M. E. Prokhorov

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0106299

Abstract

Stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a stationary coalescing population of binary neutron stars in the Galaxy is calculated. This background is found to constitute a confusion limit within the LISA frequency band up to a limiting frequency 10-3 Hz, leaving the frequency window 10-3--10-2 Hz open for the potential detection of cosmological stochastic gravitational waves and of signals involving massive black holes out to cosmological distances.

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