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The second post-Newtonian (2PN) contribution to the `plus' and `cross' gravitational wave polarizations associated with gravitational radiation from non-spinning, compact binaries moving in elliptic orbits is computed. The computation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

Several scenarios have been proposed in which the orbits of binary black holes enter the band of a gravitational wave detector with significant eccentricity. To avoid missing these signals or biasing parameter estimation it is important…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Neil J. Cornish , Joey Shapiro Key

This paper derives the total power or energy loss rate generated in the form of gravitational waves by an inspiralling compact binary system to the five halves post-Newtonian (2.5PN) approximation of general relativity. Extending a recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luc Blanchet

The gravitational radiation from point particle binaries is computed at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation of general relativity. Three previously introduced ambiguity parameters, coming from the Hadamard self-field regularization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-11 Luc Blanchet , Thibault Damour , Gilles Esposito-Farese , Bala R. Iyer

The population of stellar-mass, compact object binaries that merge with non-negligible eccentricity may be large enough to motivate searches with ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Such events could be exceptional laboratories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes , Frans Pretorius

The generalized post-Keplerian parametrization for compact binaries on eccentric bound orbits is established at second post-Newtonian (2PN) order in a class of massless scalar-tensor theories. This result is used to compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-21 David Trestini

Although the gravitational waves observed by advanced LIGO and Virgo are consistent with compact binaries in a quasi-circular inspiral prior to coalescence, eccentric inspirals are also expected to occur in Nature. Due to their complexity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Blake Moore , Travis Robson , Nicholas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

The multipolar-post-Minkowskian approach to gravitational radiation is applied to the problem of the generation of waves by the compact binary inspiral. We investigate specifically the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation in the total…

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

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 orbit-averaged fluxes of energy and angular momentum generated by a compact binary system of nonspinning particles are obtained in a popular class of massless scalar-tensor theories with first-and-a-half post-Newtonian (1.5PN) accuracy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 David Trestini

The rotation of the bodies and the eccentricity of the orbit have significant effects on the emitted gravitational radiation of binary systems. This work focuses on the evaluation of the gravitational wave polarization states for spinning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 János Majár , Mátyás Vasúth

We obtain analytical gravitational waveforms in the frequency-domain for precessing, quasi-circular compact binaries with small spins, applicable, for example, to binary neutron star inspirals. We begin by calculating an analytic solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

Black hole binaries with small mass ratios will be important sources for the forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Models of such binaries also serve as useful tools for understanding the dynamics of compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Devin R. Becker , Scott A. Hughes , Gaurav Khanna

To enable detection and maximise the physics output of gravitational wave observations from compact binary systems, it is crucial the availability of accurate waveform models. The present work aims at giving an overview for non-experts of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Soichiro Isoyama , Riccardo Sturani , Hiroyuki Nakano

We present a prescription to compute the time-domain gravitational wave (GW) polarization states associated with spinning compact binaries inspiraling along quasi-circular orbits. We invoke the orbital angular momentum $\vek L$ rather than…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-03 Anuradha Gupta , Achamveedu Gopakumar

We use post-Newtonian (PN) approximations to determine the initial orbital and spin parameters of black hole binaries that lead to low-eccentricity inspirals when evolved with numerical relativity techniques. In particular, we seek initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 James Healy , Carlos O. Lousto , Hiroyuki Nakano , Yosef Zlochower

To be observed and analyzed by the network of current gravitational wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA), and in anticipation of future third generation ground based (Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer) and space borne (LISA) detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Luc Blanchet

The detection of GW150914 by ground based gravitational wave observatories has brought about a new era in astrophysics. At optimal sensitivity, these observatories are expected to detect several events each year, with one or two of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Nicolas Loutrel , Nicolas Yunes

In an earlier work [S. Kastha et al., PRD {\bf 98}, 124033 (2018)], we developed the {\it parametrized multipolar gravitational wave phasing formula} to test general relativity, for the non-spinning compact binaries in quasi-circular orbit.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Shilpa Kastha , Anuradha Gupta , K. G. Arun , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Chris Van Den Broeck

Compact binaries on eccentric orbits are another class of gravitational-wave (GW) sources that can provide a wealth of information on binary formation pathways and astrophysical environments. However, historically, eccentricity is often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-19 Khun Sang Phukon , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten