Introductory lectures on the Effective One Body formalism

Thibault Damour

doi:10.1142/S0217751X08039992

Introductory lectures on the Effective One Body formalism

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1

Authors: Thibault Damour

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The Effective One Body (EOB) formalism is an analytical approach which aims at providing an accurate description of the motion and radiation of coalescing binary black holes. We present a brief review of the basic elements of this approach.

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@article{arxiv.0802.4047,
  title  = {Introductory lectures on the Effective One Body formalism},
  author = {Thibault Damour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.4047},
  year   = {2008}
}

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22 pages, 3 figures, lectures given at the Second ICRANet Stueckelberg Workshop on Relativistic Field Theories (Pescara, Italy, September 3-8, 2007); to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics A

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