Using the main result of a companion paper, in which the binding energy of a circular-orbit non-spinning compact binary system is computed at leading-order beyond the test-particle approximation, the exact expression of the effective-one-body (EOB) metric component g^eff_tt is obtained through first order in the mass ratio. Combining these results with the recent gravitational self-force calculation of the periastron advance for circular orbits in the Schwarzschild geometry, the EOB metric component g^eff_rr is also determined at linear order in the mass ratio. These results assume that the mapping between the real and effective Hamiltonians at the second and third post-Newtonian (PN) orders holds at all PN orders. Our findings also confirm the advantage of resumming the PN dynamics around the test-particle limit if the goal is to obtain a flexible model that can smoothly connect the test-mass and equal-mass limits.
@article{arxiv.1111.5610,
title = {The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio},
author = {Enrico Barausse and Alessandra Buonanno and Alexandre Le Tiec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5610},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures; appendix generalized to include the logarithmic contributions in the post-Newtonian Hamiltonian. Results unchanged. Matches version to be published in Phys. Rev. D