Amendment 1

Amendment 1 published on 5 December 2003

Description:

The definitions of the high mass and low mass white dwarf binaries from [31 ] were switched. This has been corrected.

Old version:

There are four classes of relativistic binaries that are brought into contact by gravitational radiation: low mass white dwarf-white dwarf binaries ( $2 WD a$ ) with total mass below the Chandrasekhar mass; high mass white dwarf-white dwarf binaries ( $WD2b$ ) with total mass above the Chandrasekhar mass; neutron star-white dwarf binaries ( $NW$ ); and neutron star-neutron star binaries $NS2$

Author's comment: Typographical error

Editorial comment: Amendment requested by author on 19 Nov 2003