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The characteristics of gravitational bursts from active galactic nuclei, and globular clusters are obtained for three astrophysical situations:(i) scattering of stars by massive black holes residued at the centers of galaxies and globular clusters; (ii) the close encounters of stars in the nuclear regions of these objects; (iii) scattering of stars by black holes of stellar mass containing in the stellar population of galactic nuclei and clusters. The most effective source of gravitational bursts appears to be a scattering of stars by the massive central black holes which produces the bursts with dimensionless amplitudeh∼10−19–10−21 and frequencies from 10−1 to 10−5 Hz. The characteristics obtained correspond to the possiblities of a future gravitational-wave experiment with use of laser Doppler tracking of interplanetary spacecrafts.
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Dymnikova, I.G., Popov, A.K. & Zentsova, A.S. Bursts of gravitational radiation from active galactic nuclei and globular clusters. Astrophys Space Sci 85, 231–241 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00653445
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