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The gravitational radiation backreaction effects are considered in the Lense-Thirring approximation. New methods for parameterizing the orbit and for averaging the instantaneous radiative losses are developed. To first order in the spin S…

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The orbital motion is derived for a non-spinning test-mass in the relativistic, gravitational field of a rotationally deformed body not restricted to the equatorial plane or spherical orbit. The gravitational field of the central body is…

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We continue a previous work on the comparison between the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation and the gravitational self-force (SF) analysis of circular orbits in a Schwarzschild background. We show that the numerical SF data contain physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting

The post-Newtonian approximation is a method for solving Einstein's field equations for physical systems in which motions are slow compared to the speed of light and where gravitational fields are weak. Yet it has proven to be remarkably…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Clifford M. Will

The gravitational waveform (GWF) generated by inspiralling compact binaries moving in quasi-circular orbits is computed at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation to general relativity. Our motivation is two-fold: (i) To provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-22 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Bala R. Iyer , Siddhartha Sinha

We investigate for order and chaos the dynamical system of a spinning test particle of mass $m$ moving in the spacetime background of a Kerr black hole of mass M. This system is approximated in our investigation by the linear in spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Matthaios Katsanikas , Panos A. Patsis , Jonathan Seyrich

The inspiral of compact binaries, driven by gravitational-radiation reaction, is investigated through 7/2 post-Newtonian (3.5PN) order beyond the quadrupole radiation. We outline the derivation of the 3.5PN-accurate binary's center-of-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Bala R. Iyer , Benoit Joguet

In the effective-one-body (EOB) approach the dynamics of two compact objects of masses m1 and m2 and spins S1 and S2 is mapped into the dynamics of one test particle of mass mu = m1 m2/(m1+m2) and spin S* moving in a deformed Kerr metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-01 Enrico Barausse , Alessandra Buonanno

Effects of massive object's spin on massive-massless $2 \to 2$ classical scattering is studied. Focus is set on the less-considered dimensionless expansion parameter $\lambda/b$, where $\lambda$ is the massless particle's wavelength and $b$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Wei-Ming Chen , Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim

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

To obtain the waveform template of gravitational waves (GWs), substantial computational resources and exceedingly high precision are often required. In the previous study [JCAP 11 (2023) 070], we efficiently and accurately calculate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Changkai Chen , Jiliang Jing

The problem of a compact binary system whose components move on circular orbits is addressed using two different approximation techniques in general relativity. The post-Newtonian (PN) approximation involves an expansion in powers of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting

The Kerr metric of spherically symmetric gravitational field is analyzed through the coordinate transformation from the rotating frame to fixing frame, and consequently that the inertial force field (with the exception of the centrifugal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian-Qi Shen , Hong-Yi Zhu , Shen-Lei Shi

We resolve subtleties in calculating the post-Minksowskian dynamics of binary systems, as a spin expansion, from massive scattering amplitudes of fixed finite spin. In particular, the apparently ambiguous spin Casimir terms can be fully…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Dogan Akpinar , Fernando Febres Cordero , Manfred Kraus , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

Binary systems of rapidly spinning compact objects, such as black holes or neutron stars, are prime targets for gravitational wave astronomers. The dynamics of these systems can be very complicated due to spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings.…

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Gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers probe their astrophysical origins via the binary spin, namely the spin magnitudes and directions of each component black hole, together described by six degrees of freedom.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Simona J. Miller , Zoe Ko , Thomas A. Callister , Katerina Chatziioannou

We continue to investigate correspondences between, on the one hand, scattering amplitudes for massive higher-spin particles and gravitons in appropriate quantum-to-classical limits, and on the other hand, classical gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-08 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

In this contribution we deal with several issues one encounters when trying to couple quantum matter to classical gravitational fields. We start with a general background discussion and then move on to two more technical sections. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Domenico Giulini , André Großardt , Philip K. Schwartz

We develop a novel amplitude bootstrap technique manifestly free of unphysical poles for classically spinning particles interacting with gravitons utilizing only the double-copy and physical factorization limits. Combined with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Marcos Skowronek

Scattering of two Kerr Black Holes emitting gravitational waves can be captured by an effective theory of a massive higher-spin field interacting with the gravitational field. While other compact objects should activate a multitude of…

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