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We investigate the dynamics of spinning binaries of compact objects at the next-to-leading order in the quadratic-in-spin effects, which corresponds to the third post-Newtonian order (3PN). Using a Dixon-type multipolar formalism for…

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We present the conservative dynamics of compact binaries to third order in the post-Minkowskian approximation in a theory that extends general relativity by a massless scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. We employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Yuchen Du , Zhengwen Liu , Hongbin Wang

Thanks to the new generation of gravitational wave detectors LIGO and VIRGO, the theory of general relativity will face new and important confrontations to observational data with unprecedented precision. Indeed the detection and analysis…

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

Taking into account the mass transfer effect, we derive the equations of motion of a compact binary system at the second-half post-Newtonian order. Applying such equations of motion to quasi-circular orbits, we obtain the time derivative of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-08 Zi-Han Zhang , Tan Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

We propose a novel method to test the consistency of the multipole moments of compact binary systems with the predictions of General Relativity (GR). The multipole moments of a compact binary system, known in terms of symmetric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-16 Shilpa Kastha , Anuradha Gupta , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Chris Van Den Broeck

In this study, gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiralling compact binary systems on quasicircular orbits in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity are computed in the lowest post-Newtonian approximation. By applying the stationary phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 P. I. Dyadina

We study gravitational waves emitted by a binary system of non-spinning bodies in a quasi-circular inspiral within the framework of Einstein-aether theory. In particular, we compute explicitly and analytically the expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 Chao Zhang , Xiang Zhao , Anzhong Wang , Bin Wang , Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes , Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu

We introduce a new methodology for deriving the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting binary systems. Our approach combines, in a novel way, several theoretical formalisms: post-Newtonian, post-Minkowskian,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-11 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We derive spin-orbit coupling effects on the gravitational field and equations of motion of compact binaries in the 2.5 post-Newtonian approximation to general relativity, one PN order beyond where spin effects first appear. Our method is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Hideyuki Tagoshi , Akira Ohashi , Benjamin J. Owen

We derive a gauge inspired combinatorial formula based on localization for the Post-Newtonian expansion of the gravitational wave form luminosity of binary systems made of objects with very different masses orbiting at large distances and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Francesco Fucito , Jose Francisco Morales

The linear- and quadratic-in-spin contributions to the binding potential and gravitational-wave flux from binary systems are derived to next-to-next-to-leading order in the Post-Newtonian (PN) expansion of general relativity, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Gihyuk Cho , Rafael A. Porto , Zixin Yang

The relativistic motion of a compact binary system moving in circular orbit is investigated using the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation and the perturbative self-force (SF) formalism. A particular gauge-invariant observable quantity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-19 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting

Inspiralling and coalescing binary black holes are promising sources of gravitational radiation. The orbital motion and gravitational-wave emission of such system can be modelled using a variety of approximation schemes and numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-06 Alexandre Le Tiec

We derive Keplerian-type parametrization for the solution of post-Newtonian (PN) accurate conservative dynamics of spinning compact binaries moving in eccentric orbits. The PN accurate dynamics that we consider consists of the third…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Christian Koenigsdoerffer , Achamveedu Gopakumar

Gravitational waves generated by inspiralling compact binaries are investigated to the second--post-Newtonian (2PN) approximation of general relativity. Using a recently developed 2PN-accurate wave generation formalism, we compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luc Blanchet , Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer

A quasi-Keplerian parameterisation for the solutions of second post-Newtonian (PN) accurate equations of motion for spinning compact binaries is obtained including leading order spin-spin and next-to-leading order spin-orbit interactions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Manuel Tessmer , Johannes Hartung , Gerhard Schaefer

General relativity predicts the gravitational wave signatures of coalescing binary black holes. Explicit waveform predictions for such systems, required for optimal analysis of observational data, have so far been achieved using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John G. Baker , James R. van Meter , Sean T. McWilliams , Joan Centrella , Bernard J. Kelly

Compact binaries inspiralling along eccentric orbits are plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the ground-based laser interferometers. We explore the losses in the event rates incurred when searching for GWs from compact binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Tessmer , A. Gopakumar

Inspiralling compact binaries are ideally suited for application of a high-order post-Newtonian (PN) gravitational wave generation formalism. To be observed by the LIGO and VIRGO detectors, these very relativistic systems (with orbital…

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

Dimensional regularization is applied to the computation of the gravitational wave field generated by compact binaries at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation. We generalize the wave generation formalism from isolated post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-12-19 Luc Blanchet , Thibault Damour , Gilles Esposito-Farese , Bala R. Iyer