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Memory effect from spinning unbound binaries

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-23 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We present a recently developed prescription to obtain ready-to-use gravitational wave (GW) polarization states for spinning compact binaries on hyperbolic orbits. We include leading order spin-orbit interactions, invoking 1.5PN-accurate quasi-Keplerian parametrization for the radial part of the orbital dynamics. We also include radiation reaction effects on h+h_+ and h×h_{\times} during the interaction. In the GW signals from spinning binaries there is evidence of the memory effect in both polarizations, in contrast to the non-spinning case, where only the cross polarizations exhibits non-vanishing amplitudes at infinite time. We also compute 1PN-accurate GW polarization states for non-spinning compact binaries in unbound orbits in a fully parametric way, and compare them with existing waveforms.

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@article{arxiv.1410.6605,
  title  = {Memory effect from spinning unbound binaries},
  author = {Lorenzo De Vittori and Achamveedu Gopakumar and Anuradha Gupta and Philippe Jetzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6605},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2014 Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, ed. C.Sopuerta (Berlin: Springer-Verlag)

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