Wednesday, October 3, 2012

1210.0764 (Luc Blanchet et al.)

Third post-Newtonian spin-orbit effect in the gravitational radiation
flux of compact binaries
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Luc Blanchet, Alessandra Buonanno, Guillaume Faye
Gravitational waves contain tail effects that are due to the backscattering of linear waves in the curved space-time geometry around the source. The knowledge as well as the accuracy of the two-body inspiraling post-Newtonian (PN) dynamics and of the gravitational-wave signal has been recently improved, notably by computing the spin-orbit (SO) terms induced by tail effects in the gravitational-wave energy flux at the 3PN order. Here we sketch this derivation, which yields the phasing formula including SO tail effects through the same 3PN order. Those results can be employed to improve the accuracy of analytical templates aimed at describing the whole process of inspiral, merger, and ringdown.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0764

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