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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

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

Using the NRGR effective field theory formalism we calculate the remaining source multipole moments necessary to obtain the spin contributions to the gravitational wave amplitude to 2.5 Post-Newtonian (PN) order. We also reproduce the tail…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Rafael A. Porto , Andreas Ross , Ira Z. Rothstein

Gravitational-wave tails are linear waves that backscatter on the curvature of space-time generated by the total mass-energy of the source. The non-linear memory effect arises from gravitational waves sourced by the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-16 David Trestini , Luc Blanchet

We complete the post-Newtonian (PN) prediction at the 3.5PN order for the spin contributions to the gravitational waveforms emitted by inspiraling compact binaries, in the case of quasi-circular, equatorial orbits, where both spins are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-21 Quentin Henry , Sylvain Marsat , Mohammed Khalil

We perform a comprehensive study of gravitational waves in the context of the higher-order quadratic scalar curvature gravity, which encompasses the ordinary Einstein-Hilbert term in the action plus an $R^{2}$ contribution and a term of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 S. G. Vilhena , L. G. Medeiros , R. R. Cuzinatto

We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Working within the post-Minkowskian approach to General Relativity, we prove that the radiation-reaction to the emission of gravitational waves during the large-impact-parameter scattering of two (classical) point masses modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Thibault Damour

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

The gravitational wave signal from an inspiralling binary neutron star system will contain detailed information about tidal coupling in the system, and thus, about the internal physics of the neutron stars. To extract this information will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Justin Vines , Tanja Hinderer , Éanna É. Flanagan

This paper is motivated by the need to improve the post-Newtonian (PN) amplitude accuracy of waveforms for gravitational waves generated by inspiralling compact binaries, both for use in data analysis and in the comparison between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Guillaume Faye , Luc Blanchet , Bala R. Iyer

We use Effective Field Theory techniques to derive the quadrupole-quadrupole part of the gravitational wave, obtaining a waveform in agreement with previous results found within the multipolar-post-Minkowskian method. In particular we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Gabriel Luz Almeida , Alan Müller , Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

The rate of gravitational-wave energy loss from inspiralling binary systems of compact objects of arbitrary mass is derived through second post-Newtonian (2PN) order $O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$ beyond the quadrupole approximation. The result has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Luc Blanchet , Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Using effective field theory techniques we calculate the source multipole moments needed to obtain the spin contributions to the power radiated in gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries to third Post-Newtonian order (3PN).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-30 Rafael A. Porto , Andreas Ross , Ira Z. Rothstein

Using the worldline quantum field theory approach we derive solutions to the equations of motion for spinning massive bodies up to quadratic order in spins. At leading post-Minkowskian (PM) order these trajectories are obtained in the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Kathrin Stoldt

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

In this work the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach to computing observables of the classical general relativistic two-body system is presented. Compact bodies such as black holes or neutron stars are described in an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

Using the gravitational potential and source multipole moments bilinear in the spins, first computed to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion within the effective field theory (EFT) framework, we complete here the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Gihyuk Cho , Brian Pardo , Rafael A. Porto

Within an effective field theory method to general relativity, we calculate the fifth-order post--Newtonian (5 PN) Hamiltonian dynamics also for the tail terms, extending earlier work on the potential contributions, working in harmonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-10 J. Blümlein , A. Maier , P. Marquard , G. Schäfer

We are employing a supersymmetric variant of the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) formalism to compute the far-field momentum-space gravitational waveform emitted during the scattering of two spinning black holes at next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Lara Bohnenblust , Harald Ita , Manfred Kraus , Johannes Schlenk