%0 Journal Article
%4 sid.inpe.br/iris@1905/2005/07.29.01.14.44
%2 sid.inpe.br/iris@1905/2005/07.29.01.14.55
%@issn 1365-2966
%F 7140
%T Determination of astrophysical parameters from the spherical gravitational wave detector data
%D 1995
%A Nadja, S. Magalhaes,
%A Warren, W. Johnson,
%A Frajuca, Carlos,
%A Aguiar, Odylio Denys de,
%@affiliation
%@affiliation
%@affiliation
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%B Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
%V 274
%N 3
%P 670-678
%K nonthermal radiation mechanism, detectors, analytical methods.
%X The response of a spherical resonant-mass gravitational wave antenna can be written in terms of symmetric trace-free tensors. We apply this formalism to determine the direction of an incoming monochromatic wave, the orientation of its polarization ellipse and the wave's two independent amplitudes, using the response amplitudes at five different points on the sphere surface. This formalism also allows us to determine the directions of burst sources.
%3 1995MNRAS_274__670M.pdf