Periodic line-of-sight velocity-driven modulations to gravitational waves emitted by compact binaries in Keplerian outer orbits

arXiv:2607.09644 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-10 · Read on arXiv

Avinash Tiwari, Shasvath J. Kapadia, Aditya Vijaykumar, Sourav Chatterjee

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-10

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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