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We describe a post-Minkowskii approximation of general relativity as a power series expansion in G, Newton's gravitational constant. Material sources are hidden behind boundaries, and only the vacuum Einstein equations are considered. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Lee H. Brown

Gravitational waveforms which describe the inspiral, merger and ringdown of coalescing binaries are usually constructed by synthesising information from perturbative descriptions, in particular post-Newtonian theory and black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-25 Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alejandro Bohé , Sascha Husa , Alicia M. Sintes , Mark Hannam , Michael Pürrer

We calculate the gravitational waveform for spinning, precessing compact binary inspirals through second post-Newtonian order in the amplitude. When spins are collinear with the orbital angular momentum and the orbits are quasi-circular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-19 Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye , Tanja Hinderer

The post-Newtonian formalism plays an integral role in the models used to extract information from gravitational wave data, but models that incorporate this formalism are inherently approximations. Disagreement between an approximate model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Caroline B. Owen , Carl-Johan Haster , Scott Perkins , Neil J. Cornish , Nicolás Yunes

We compute the (displacement) gravitational wave memory due to a quasicircular inspiral of two black holes using a variety of perturbative techniques. Within post-Newtonian theory, we extend previous results for non-spinning binaries to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Kevin Cunningham , Chris Kavanagh , Adam Pound , David Trestini , Niels Warburton , Jakob Neef

We present new techniqes for evolving binary black hole systems which allow the accurate determination of gravitational waveforms directly from the wave zone region of the numerical simulations. Rather than excising the black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , Joan Centrella , Dae-Il Choi , Michael Koppitz , James van Meter

We compute the quadrupole mode of the gravitational waveform of inspiralling compact binaries at the third and a half post-Newtonian (3.5PN) approximation of general relativity. The computation is performed using the multipolar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-01 Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer

The equations of motion of $N$ gravitationally bound bodies are derived from the field equations of Projective Unified Field Theory. The Newtonian and the post-Newtonian approximations of the field equations and of the equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-18 Alexander Gorbatsievich , Ernst Schmutzer

Using post-Newtonian equations of motion for fluid bodies that include radiation-reaction terms at 2.5 and 3.5 post-Newtonian (PN) order (O[(v/c)^5] and O[(v/c)^7] beyond Newtonian order), we derive the equations of motion for binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Clifford M. Will

Neutron stars are compact, relativistic bodies that host several extremes of modern physics. An exciting development in recent years has been the opportunity to probe this exotic physics by observing compact-binary coalescences using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-10 Fabian Gittins , Nils Andersson , Shanshan Yin

The post-Newtonian approximation is still the most widely used approach to obtaining explicit solutions in general relativity, especially for the relativistic two-body problem with arbitrary mass ratio. Within many of its applications, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-09 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Bernard F. Whiting

We present our 3.5PN computation of the (2,2) mode of the gravitational wave amplitude emitted by compact binaries, on quasi-circular orbits and in the absence of spins. We use the multipolar post-Newtonian wave generation formalism,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Guillaume Faye , Sylvain Marsat , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer

The modeling of gravitational wave ringdown has traditionally relied on linear perturbation theory, which mainly describes the late-time behavior of a perturbed black hole after a binary merger. However, the need for more accurate ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Macarena Lagos

We revisit the accuracy of the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation and its region of validity for quasi-circular orbits of a point particle in the Kerr spacetime, by using an analytically known highest post-Newtonian order gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-27 Norichika Sago , Ryuichi Fujita , Hiroyuki Nakano

Owed to their compactness, neutron stars involve strong gravity and extreme density physics. Nevertheless, at present, there are a variety of problems where progress (at least conceptually) can be made in the context of weak gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Nils Andersson , Fabian Gittins , Shanshan Yin , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

Binary black-hole systems are expected to be important sources of gravitational waves for upcoming gravitational-wave detectors. If the spins are not colinear with each other or with the orbital angular momentum, these systems exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-07 Serguei Ossokine , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Béla Szilágyi

We describe a systematic framework for computing the conservative potential of a compact binary system using modern tools from scattering amplitudes and effective field theory. Our approach combines methods for integration and matching…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-17 Zvi Bern , Clifford Cheung , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

Recently we derived the next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian Hamiltonians at spin-orbit and spin(1)-spin(2) level for a binary system of compact objects. In this talk the derivation of them will be shortly outlined at an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-05 Johannes Hartung , Jan Steinhoff , Gerhard Schäfer

We extend the analytical determination of the main radial potential describing (within the effective one-body formalism) the gravitational interaction of two bodies beyond the 4th post-Newtonian approximation recently obtained by us. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

General Relativity is the modern theory of gravitation. It has replaced the newtonian theory in the description of the gravitational phenomena. In spite of the remarkable success of the General Relativity Theory, the newtonian gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-09 J. C. Fabris , H. Velten