An estimate of the steady state population statistics of compact binary stars as a function of orbital eccentricity and scaled period, the scaling being dependent on the companion masses, is obtained starting from Peters-Mathews equations for orbital damping under gravitational wave emission.
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Pierro et al. (1996) studied this question.
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