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Gravitational waveforms in scalar-tensor gravity at 2PN relative order

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-10-11 v1

Abstract

We compute the gravitational waveform from a binary system in scalar-tensor gravity at 2PN relative order. We restrict our calculation to non-spinning binary systems on quasi-circular orbits and compute the spin-weighted spherical modes of the radiation. The evolution of the phase of the waveform is computed in the time and frequency domains. The emission of dipolar radiation is the lowest-order dissipative process in scalar-tensor gravity. However, stringent constraints set by current astrophysical observations indicate that this effect is subdominant to quadrupolar radiation for most prospective gravitational-wave sources. We compute the waveform for systems whose inspiral is driven by: (a) dipolar radiation (e.g., binary pulsars or spontaneously scalarized systems) and (b) quadrupolar radiation (e.g., typical sources for space-based and ground-based detectors).

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@article{arxiv.1607.01420,
  title  = {Gravitational waveforms in scalar-tensor gravity at 2PN relative order},
  author = {Noah Sennett and Sylvain Marsat and Alessandra Buonanno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01420},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages

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