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In the adiabatic post-Newtonian (PN) approximation, the phase evolution of gravitational waves (GWs) from inspiralling compact binaries in quasicircular orbits is computed by equating the change in binding energy with the GW flux. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Parameswaran Ajith

Gravitational waves emitted by black hole binary inspiral and mergers enable unprecedented strong-field tests of gravity, requiring accurate theoretical modelling of the expected signals in extensions of General Relativity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

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 gravitational radiation originating from a compact binary system in circular orbit is usually expressed as an infinite sum over radiative multipole moments. In a slow-motion approximation, each multipole moment is then expressed as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Stephen W. Leonard , Eric Poisson

Compact binary systems with spinning components are considered. Finite size effects due to rotational deformation are taken into account. The dynamical evolution and next to leading order gravitational wave forms are calculated, taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dörte Hansen

Using the Teukolsky and Sasaki-Nakamura equations for the gravitational perturbation of the Kerr spacetime, we calculate the post-Newtonian expansion of the energy and angular momentum luminosities of gravitational waves from a test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Masaru Shibata , Misao Sasaki , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

We consider an application of the Multipolar Post Minkowskian formalism to the case of a two-body system in radial fall. We compute, within the post-Newtonian approximation, the associated gravitational waveform reaching the 2.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Donato Bini , Giorgio Di Russo

The angular momentum flux from an inspiralling binary system of compact objects moving in quasi-elliptical orbits is computed at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order using the multipolar post-Minkowskian wave generation formalism. The 3PN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 K. G. Arun , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer , Siddhartha Sinha

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

We derive the equations of motion for binary systems of compact bodies in the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation to general relativity. Results are given through 2PN order (order (v/c)^4 beyond Newtonian theory), and for gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael E. Pati , Clifford M. Will

[abridged] Although gravitational radiation causes inspiralling compact binaries to circularize, a variety of astrophysical scenarios suggest that binaries might have small but nonnegligible orbital eccentricities when they enter the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-30 Blake Moore , Marc Favata , K. G. Arun , Chandra Kant Mishra

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

Motivated by the completion of the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) gravitational-wave generation from compact binary systems, we analyze and contrast different constructions of the metric outside an isolated system, using post-Minkowskian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 David Trestini , François Larrouturou , Luc Blanchet

Gravitational radiation can be expressed in terms of an infinite series of radiative, symmetric trace-free (STF) multipole moments which can be connected to the behavior of the source. We consider a truncated model for gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. E. Simone , S. W. Leonard , E. Poisson , C. M. Will

We consider a general class of quantum gravity-inspired, modified gravity theories, where the Einstein-Hilbert action is extended through the addition of all terms quadratic in the curvature tensor coupled to scalar fields with standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-12 Kent Yagi , Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

We derive all second post-Newtonian (2PN), non-precessional effects of spin- orbit coupling on the gravitational wave forms emitted by an inspiraling binary composed of spinning, compact bodies in a quasicircular orbit. Previous post-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Benjamin J. Owen , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Akira Ohashi

The two-body dynamics in general relativity has been solved perturbatively using the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation. The evolution of the orbital phase and the emitted gravitational radiation are now known to a rather high order up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-05 Alessandra Buonanno , Bala Iyer , Evan Ochsner , Yi Pan , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion. We use the scattering-amplitudes-based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Goncalves , Carlo Heissenberg , Julio Parra-Martinez

Scalar-tensor theories are one of the most natural and well-constrained alternative theories of gravity, while still allowing for significant deviations from general relativity. We present the equations of motion of nonspinning compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Laura Bernard

General relativity (GR) has been extensively tested in the solar system and in binary pulsars, but never in the strong-field, dynamical regime. Soon, gravitational-wave (GW) detectors like Advanced LIGO and eLISA will be able to probe this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Ryan N. Lang