• DOI:10.1086/382155
• Corpus ID: 120100145

THE COSMIC COALESCENCE RATES FOR DOUBLE NEUTRON STAR BINARIES

@article{Kalogera2004THECC,
  title={THE COSMIC COALESCENCE RATES FOR DOUBLE NEUTRON STAR BINARIES},
  author={Vicky Kalogera and Chunglee Kim and Duncan R. Lorimer and Marta Burgay and Nichi D'amico and Andrea Possenti and Richard N. Manchester and Andrew G. Lyne and Bhal Chandra Joshi and Maura Mclaughlin and Michael Kramer and John M. Sarkissian and Fernando Camilo},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2004},
  volume={601}
}

• V. Kalogera, Chunglee Kim, +10 authors F. Camilo
• Published 27 January 2004
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal

We report on the newly increased event rates due to the recent discovery of the highly relativistic binary pulsar J07373039. Using a rigorous statistical method, we present the calculations reported by Burgay et al., which produce a coalescence rate for Galactic double neutron star (DNS) systems that is higher by a factor of 6–7 compared to estimates made prior to the new discovery. Our method takes into account known pulsar survey selection effects and biases due to small-number statistics. This rate increase has dramatic implications for gravitational wave detectors. For the initial Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, the most probable detection rates for DNS in-spirals are one event per 5–250 yr; at 95% confidence, we obtain rates up to one per 1.5 yr. For the advanced LIGO detectors, the most probable rates are 20–1000 events per year. These predictions, for the first time, bring the expectations for DNS detections by the initial LIGO detectors to the astrophysically relevant regime. We also use our models to predict that the large-scale Parkes Multibeam pulsar survey with acceleration searches could detect an average of three to four binary pulsars similar to those known at present. Subject headings: binaries: close — gravitational waves — methods: statistical — stars: neutron