POPULATION SYNTHESIS OF HIGH ENERGY TRANZIENTS:
FORMATION AND MERGING
OF RELATIVISTIC BINARIES
V.M. LIPUNOV
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, 119899 Moscow, Russia
Abstact
Merging rates of compact binaries
(double neutron stars or black holes) are calculated based
on the modern concept of binary stellar evolution.
It is found that the initial laser interferometers
with an rms-sensitivity of 
at the frequency 100 Hz
can detect 10-700 black holes and only 
1
neutron star coalescences in a 1-year integration time.
Implications of the evolutionary effects
to the cosmological origin of GRB are also discussed.