Tuesday, October 9, 2012

1210.2339 (Guillaume Faye et al.)

Post-Newtonian prediction for the (2,2) mode of the gravitational wave
emitted by compact binaries
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Guillaume Faye, Sylvain Marsat, Luc Blanchet, Bala R. Iyer
We present our 3.5PN computation of the (2,2) mode of the gravitational wave amplitude emitted by compact binaries, on quasi-circular orbits and in the absence of spins. We use the multipolar post-Newtonian wave generation formalism, extending and building on previous works which computed the 3PN order. This calculation required the extension of the multipolar post-Minkowskian algorithm, as well as the computation of the mass source quadrupole at 3.5PN order. Our result will allow more accurate comparisons to numerical relativity, and is a first step towards the computation of the full 3.5PN waveform amplitude, which would improve the estimation of the source parameters by gravitational wave detectors.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2339

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