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Hamiltonian formalisms provide powerful tools for the computation of approximate analytic solutions of the Einstein field equations. The post-Newtonian computations of the explicit analytic dynamics and motion of compact binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-20 Gerhard Schäfer , Piotr Jaranowski

Part A of this article is devoted to the general investigation of the gravitational-wave emission by post-Newtonian sources. We show how the radiation field far from the source, as well as its near-zone inner gravitational field, can (in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Luc Blanchet

The Hamiltonian for a system of relativistic bodies interacting by their gravitational field is found in the post-Minkowskian approximation, including all terms linear in the gravitational constant. It is given in a surprisingly simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-03 Tomas Ledvinka , Gerhard Schaefer , Jiri Bicak

Leveraging scattering information to describe binary systems in generic orbits requires identifying local- and nonlocal-in-time tail effects. We report here the derivation of the universal (non-spinning) local-in-time conservative dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-07 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We extend the analytical determination of the main radial potential describing (within the effective one-body formalism) the gravitational interaction of two bodies beyond the 4th post-Newtonian approximation recently obtained by us. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour

This dissertation consists of four parts. In Part I, we briefly review fundamental theories of gravity, performed experimental tests, and gravitational waves. The framework and the methods that we use in our calculations are discussed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Saeed Mirshekari

We present the amplitude for classical scattering of gravitationally interacting massive scalars at third post-Minkowskian order. Our approach harnesses powerful tools from the modern amplitudes program such as generalized unitarity and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Zvi Bern , Clifford Cheung , Radu Roiban , Chia-Hsien Shen , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We compute tail contributions to the conservative dynamics of a generic self-gravitating system, for every multipole order, of either electric and magnetic parity. Such contributions arise when gravitational radiation is backscattered by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

We calculate the motion of binary mass systems in gravity up to the fourth post--Newtonian order. We use momentum expansions within an effective field theory approach based on Feynman amplitudes in harmonic coordinates by applying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 J. Blümlein , A. Maier , P. Marquard , G. Schäfer

We present a gravitoelectric quadrupolar dynamical tidal-interaction Hamiltonian for a compact binary system, that is valid to second order in the post-Newtonian expansion. Our derivation uses the diagrammatic effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-28 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Hector O. Silva , Raj Patil , Jan Steinhoff

The post-Newtonian expansion appears to be a relevant tool for predicting the gravitational waveforms generated by some astrophysical systems such as binaries. In particular, inspiralling compact binaries are well-modelled by a system of…

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

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 have introduced a new method for computing gravitational-wave emission from nonspinning binaries which systematically unifies the various integrals arising in the Fourier expansions of post-Newtonian dynamics, providing a simple,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Xiaolin Liu , Zhoujian Cao

A brief review is given of all the Hamiltonians and effective potentials calculated hitherto covering the post-Newtonian (pN) dynamics of a two body system. A method is presented to compare (conservative) reduced Hamiltonians with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-15 Steven Hergt , Jan Steinhoff , Gerhard Schaefer

Accurate modeling of compact binaries is essential for gravitational-wave detection and parameter estimation, with spin being an important effect to include in waveform models. In this paper, we derive new post-Newtonian (PN) results for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Mohammed Khalil , Matteo Sergola , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We calculate the explicit equations of motion for non-spinning compact objects to 2.5 post-Newtonian order, or O(v/c)^5 beyond Newtonian gravity, in a general class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. We use the formalism of the Direct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-14 Saeed Mirshekari , Clifford M. Will

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

Gravitational wave observatories targeted for compact binary coalescence, such as LIGO and VIRGO, require various theoretical inputs for their efficient detection. One of such inputs are analytical description of binary dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-27 Jung-Wook Kim

Advanced methods for computing perturbative, quantum-gravitational scattering amplitudes show great promise for improving our knowledge of classical gravitational dynamics. This is especially true in the weak-field and arbitrary-speed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-21 Andrea Antonelli , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Maarten van de Meent , Justin Vines