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The equations of motion of compact binary systems have been derived in the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation of general relativity. The current level of accuracy is 3.5PN order. The conservative part of the equations of motion (neglecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Luc Blanchet

Complete expressions of time-domain gravitational waveforms for spinning binary inspirals via the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation would require determination of the phase, amplitude, inclination angle, precession phase and spin vectors as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-19 Dong-Hoon Kim

Tidal dissipation in spinning compact binaries imprints characteristic corrections on the late-inspiral gravitational-wave signal. We develop a next-to-leading order post-Newtonian description of dissipative, electric-quadrupolar tides in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Anand Balivada , Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Nicolás Yunes

The phasing for compact binary systems on circular orbits was obtained in arXiv:2304.11185 at fourth-and-a-half post-Newtonian (4.5PN) order thanks to two main ingredients: the 4PN conservative energy (associated to a nonradiative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-01 David Trestini

The study of scattering encounters continues to provide new insights into the general relativistic two-body problem. The local-in-time conservative dynamics of an aligned-spin binary, for both unbound and bound orbits, is fully encoded in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

We develop a fully analytical waveform model for precessing binaries with arbitrary spin vectors using post-Newtonian~(PN) theory in the extreme mass-ratio limit and a hierarchical multi-scale analysis. The analytical model incorporates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Sajal Mukherjee , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 David Trestini

We compute the gravitational waves generated by compact binary systems in a class of massless scalar-tensor (ST) theories to the 1.5 post-Newtonian (1.5PN) order beyond the standard quadrupole radiation in general relativity (GR). Using and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Laura Bernard , Luc Blanchet , David Trestini

A parametrized multipolar gravitational wave phasing within multipolar post-Minkowskian and post-Newtonian formalism was developed in earlier works [S. Kastha et al., PRD 98, 124033 (2018) and PRD 100, 044007 (2019)]. This facilitates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Parthapratim Mahapatra , Shilpa Kastha

Using the worldline quantum field theory approach we derive solutions to the equations of motion for spinning massive bodies up to quadratic order in spins. At leading post-Minkowskian (PM) order these trajectories are obtained in the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Kathrin Stoldt

Gravitational waves contain tail effects which are due to the back-scattering of linear waves in the curved space-time geometry around the source. In this paper we improve the knowledge and accuracy of the two-body inspiraling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Luc Blanchet , Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye

We present a novel numerical method to calculate periodic orbits for dynamical systems by an iterative process which is based directly on the action integral in classical mechanics. New solutions are obtained for the planar motion of three…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Nauenberg

While there has been much success in understanding the orbital dynamics and gravitational wave emission of eccentric compact binaries in the post-Newtonian formalism, some problems still remain. The largest of these concerns hereditary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-18 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

We compute spin-orbit effects in the equations of motion, binding energy and energy loss of binary systems of compact objects at the next-to-leading order in the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation in the effective field theory (EFT)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Brian A. Pardo , Natália T. Maia

We develop new high-order results for the post-Newtonian (PN) expansions of the energy and angular momentum fluxes at infinity for eccentric-orbit extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) on a Schwarzschild background. The series are derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Christopher Munna

We present a novel analytic extraction of high-order post-Newtonian (pN) parameters that govern quasi-circular binary systems. Coefficients in the pN expansion of the energy of a binary system can be found from corresponding coefficients in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Abhay G Shah , John L Friedman , Bernard F Whiting

We present an extension of work in an earlier paper showing high precision comparisons between black hole perturbation theory and post-Newtonian (PN) theory in their region of overlapping validity for bound, eccentric-orbit, Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Christopher Munna , Charles R. Evans , Seth Hopper , Erik Forseth

The equations of motion of two point masses in harmonic coordinates are derived through the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation. The problem of self-field regularization (necessary for removing the divergent self-field of point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Luc Blanchet

Recent perturbative self-force computations (Shah, Friedman & Whiting, submitted to Phys. Rev. {\bf D}, arXiv:1312.1952 [gr-qc]), both numerical and analytical, have determined that half-integral post-Newtonian terms arise in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-14 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Bernard F. Whiting

This paper derives the expressions of the multipole moments of an isolated gravitating source with an accuracy corresponding to the second post-Newtonian (2-PN) approximation of general relativity. The moments are obtained by a procedure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Luc Blanchet