1212.5520 (Alejandro Bohé et al.)

Next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit effects in the near-zone metric
and precession equations of compact binaries    [PDF]

Alejandro Bohé, Sylvain Marsat, Guillaume Faye, Luc Blanchet

We extend our previous work devoted to the computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit correction (corresponding to 3.5PN order) in the equations of motion of spinning compact binaries, by: (i) Deriving the corresponding spin-orbit terms in the evolution equations for the spins, the conserved integrals of the motion and the metric regularized at the location of the particles (obtaining also the metric all-over the near zone but with some lower precision); (ii) Performing the orbital reduction of the precession equations, near-zone metric and conserved integrals to the center- of-mass frame and then further assuming quasi-circular orbits (neglecting gravitational radiation reaction). The results are systematically expressed in terms of the spin variables with conserved Euclidean norm instead of the original antisymmetric spin tensors of the pole-dipole formalism. This work paves the way to the future computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit terms in the gravitational-wave phasing of spinning compact binaries.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5520