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We revisit the dynamics of the post-Newtonian (PN) two-body problem for two inspiraling compact bodies. Starting from a matter-only reduced Hamiltonian, we present an adapted framework based on the Lie series approach, enabling the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-14 Christopher Aykroyd , Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

Using state-of-the-art scattering results in post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity, we improve the tidal sector of four different flavors of the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. We notably explore both adiabatic and post-adiabatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Malte Schulze , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Piero Rettegno , Joan Fontbuté , Andrea Placidi , Thibault Damour

We initiate the construction of the global Poincar\'e algebra generators in the context of the post-Minkowskian Hamiltonian formulation of gravitating binary dynamics in isotropic coordinates that is partly inspired by scattering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 Hojin Lee , Sangmin Lee

We develop the foundations of an effective-one-body (EOB) model for eccentric binary coalescences that includes the conservative dynamics, radiation reaction, and gravitational waveform modes from the inspiral and the merger-ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-08 Tanja Hinderer , Stanislav Babak

In the last decade, the first law of binary black hole mechanics played an important unifying role in the gravitational two-body problem. More recently, binary black hole scattering and the application of high-energy physics methods have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Riccardo Gonzo , Jack Lewis , Adam Pound

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

The dominantly orbital state method allows a semiclassical description of quantum systems. At the origin, it was developed for two-body relativistic systems. Here, the method is extended to treat two-body Hamiltonians and systems with three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Claude Semay , Fabien Buisseret

A family of orbiting resonances in molecular scattering is globally described by using a single pole moving in the complex angular momentum plane. The extrapolation of this pole at negative energies gives the location of the bound states.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Enrico De Micheli , Giovanni Alberto Viano

We compare numerical self-force results and analytical fourth-order post-Minkowskian (PM) calculations for hyperbolic-type scattering of a point-like particle carrying a scalar charge $Q$ off a Schwarzschild black hole, showing a remarkably…

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

We review the description of classical gravitational scatterings of two compact objects by means of the eikonal framework. This encodes via scattering amplitudes both the motion of the bodies and the gravitational-wave signals that such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

We present the contribution from potential interactions to the dynamics of non-spinning binaries to fourth Post-Minkowskian (4PM) order. This is achieved by computing the scattering angle to ${\cal O}(G^4)$ using the effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Christoph Dlapa , Gregor Kälin , Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto

We demonstrate equivalences, under simple mappings, between the dynamics of three distinct systems---(i) an arbitrary-mass-ratio two-spinning-black-hole system, (ii) a spinning test black hole in a background Kerr spacetime, and (iii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Justin Vines

Waveforms are classical observables associated with any radiative physical process. Using scattering amplitudes, these are usually computed in a weak-field regime to some finite order in the post-Newtonian or post-Minkowskian approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton , Sonja Klisch

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

We discuss the influence of the cosmological constant on the gravitational equations of motion of bodies with arbitrary masses and eventually solve the two-body problem. Observational constraints are derived from measurements of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ph. Jetzer , M. Sereno

The post-Minkowskian approach to gravitationally interacting binary systems ({\it i.e.}, perturbation theory in $G$, without assuming small velocities) is extended to the computation of the dynamical effects induced by the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-26 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

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

This thesis details an effort to generate astrophysically interesting solutions to the two-body problem in General Relativity. The thesis consists of two main parts. The first part presents an analytical variational principle for describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian D. Baker

We extract all the invariants (i.e. all the functions which do not depend on the choice of phase-space coordinates) of the dynamics of two point-masses, at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation of general relativity. We start by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Piotr Jaranowski , Gerhard Schäfer