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A new, second-order solution in curvilinear coordinates is introduced for the relative motion of two spacecraft on eccentric orbits. The second-order equations for unperturbed orbits are derived in spherical coordinates with true anomaly as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Matthew Willis , Kyle T. Alfriend , Simone D'Amico

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

We provide an elegant way of solving analytically the third post-Newtonian (3PN) accurate Kepler equation, associated with the 3PN-accurate generalized quasi-Keplerian parametrization for compact binaries in eccentric orbits. An additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-14 Yannick Boetzel , Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

We derive a gauge inspired combinatorial formula based on localization for the Post-Newtonian expansion of the gravitational wave form luminosity of binary systems made of objects with very different masses orbiting at large distances and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Francesco Fucito , Jose Francisco Morales

We formally show that the conservative second post-Newtonian (PN) accurate dynamics of spinning compact binaries moving in eccentric orbits, when spin effects are restricted to the leading order spin-orbit interaction cannot be chaotic for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Achamveedu Gopakumar , Christian Koenigsdoerffer

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

The increasing sophistication and accuracy of numerical simulations of compact binaries (especially binary black holes) presents the opportunity to test the regime in which post-Newtonian (PN) predictions for the emitted gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence E. Kidder

The equations of motion of compact binary systems have been derived in the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation of general relativity. The current level of accuracy is 3.5PN order. The conservative part of the equations of motion (neglecting…

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

We analyse the conservative evolution of spinning compact binaries to second post-Newtonian (2PN) order accuracy, with leading order spin-orbit, spin-spin and mass quadrupole-monopole contributions included. As a main result we derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-04 László Árpád Gergely , Zoltán Keresztes

We perform several black-hole binary evolutions using fully nonlinear numerical relativity techniques at separations large enough that low-order post-Newtonian expansions are expected to be accurate. As a case study, we evolve an equal-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-04 Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

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

In the case of nonspinning compact binary systems on quasi-elliptic orbits, I obtain the conservative map between the constants of motion (energy and angular momentum) and the fundamental (radial and azimuthal) frequencies at the fourth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 David Trestini

We compute the non-linear memory contributions to the gravitational-wave amplitudes for compact binaries in eccentric orbits at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order in general relativity. These contributions are hereditary in nature as they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-22 Michael Ebersold , Yannick Boetzel , Guillaume Faye , Chandra K. Mishra , Bala R. Iyer , Philippe Jetzer

Compact binary systems emitting gravitational waves (GWs) can exhibit orbital eccentricity, along with generic spin orientations, leading to the precession of the orbital angular momentum, individual spins, and the orbital plane. While…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Soham Bhattacharyya , Omkar Sridhar

We investigate the dissipative dynamics of compact binary systems within the framework of Einstein-Maxwell theory. By evaluating the mass and electric multipole moments of binaries, we compute the combined gravitational and electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Zi-Han Zhang , Tan Liu , Shuai Zhang , Zong-Kuan Guo

GW200105 is the first gravitational wave detection to show signs of eccentricity, it also is a neutron star - blackhole binary. This raises the need for waveforms that incorporate tidal effects on quasi-elliptic orbits. We tackle the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Quentin Henry , Anna Heffernan

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian (PN) spin-orbit Hamiltonian for two self-gravitating spinning compact objects. If at least one of the objects is rapidly rotating, then the corresponding interaction is comparable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-16 Johannes Hartung , Jan Steinhoff

Inspiraling compact binaries with non-negligible orbital eccentricities are plausible gravitational wave (GW) sources for the upcoming network of GW observatories. In this paper, we present two prescriptions to compute post-Newtonian (PN)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-17 Sashwat Tanay , Maria Haney , Achamveedu Gopakumar

Based on a recent paper by Rothe and Sch\"afer on compact binary systems, explicit expressions for canonical center and relative coordinates in terms of standard canonical coordinates are derived for spinless objects up to second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-26 Ira Georg , Gerhard Schäfer

The orbital and eccentricity evolution for compact object binaries through gravitational wave emission first derived by Peters and Mathews are used extensively throughout the gravitational wave community for calculating the orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Max M. Briel , Jeff J. Andrews