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We study the quadrupolar part of the gravitational waveform $h_{ij}$ (encoded in the helicity-($-2)$ radiative quadrupole moment $U_2 = \frac{1}{2!} \bar m^{i} \bar m^{j } U_{i j} \in\frac{R}{4G} \bar m^{i} \bar m^{j } h_{i j}\equiv W $)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

This article provides the details on the technical derivation of the gravitational waveform and total gravitational-wave energy flux of non-spinning compact binary systems to the 4PN (fourth post-Newtonian) order beyond the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Quentin Henry , François Larrouturou , David Trestini

The problem of a compact binary system whose components move on circular orbits is addressed using two different approximation techniques in general relativity. The post-Newtonian (PN) approximation involves an expansion in powers of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting

Gravitational radiation can be decomposed as an infinite sum of radiative multipole moments, which parametrize the waveform at infinity. The multipolar-post-Minkowskian formalism provides a connection between these multipoles and the source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-15 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

Upcoming observational runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the ground and in space, require waveform models more accurate than currently available. High-precision waveform models can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-24 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

Gravitational waveforms which describe the inspiral, merger and ringdown of coalescing binaries are usually constructed by synthesising information from perturbative descriptions, in particular post-Newtonian theory and black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-25 Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alejandro Bohé , Sascha Husa , Alicia M. Sintes , Mark Hannam , Michael Pürrer

This paper describes the different steps to include the adiabatic tidal effects to the gravitational waveform amplitude for quasi-circular non-spinning compact binaries up to the second-and-a-half post-Newtonian (PN) order. The amplitude,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-18 Eve Dones , Quentin Henry , Laura Bernard

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 paper generalizes the structure of gravitational waves from orbiting spinning binaries under leading order spin-orbit coupling, as given in the work by K\"onigsd\"orffer and Gopakumar [PRD 71, 024039 (2005)] for single-spin and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Manuel Tessmer

In this paper, we study gravitational waves generated by binary systems within an extension of General Relativity which is described by the addition of quadratic in curvature tensor terms to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Treating quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-22 Yunho Kim , Archil Kobakhidze , Zachary S. C. Picker

We present a robust and efficient methodology for parameter estimation of gravitational waves generated during the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers. Our approach leverages an analytic waveform model combined with empirical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Stamatis Vretinaris , Georgios Vretinaris , Christos Mermigkas , Minas Karamanis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The coalescence of compact objects is one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometric detectors, such as advanced LIGO and Virgo. Generically, com- pact objects in binaries are expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

This paper is to introduce a new software called CBwaves which provides a fast and accurate computational tool to determine the gravitational waveforms yielded by generic spinning binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes on eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Péter Csizmadia , Gergely Debreczeni , István Rácz , Mátyás Vasúth

I review the elementary theory of gravitational waves on a Minkowski background and the quadrupole approximation. The modified conservation laws for energy and momentum keeping track of the gravitational-wave flux are presented. The theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-12 J. W. van Holten

This article studies sufficient accuracy criteria of hybrid post-Newtonian (PN) and numerical relativity (NR) waveforms for parameter estimation of strong binary black-hole sources in second- generation ground-based gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ilana MacDonald , Abdul H. Mroue , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi , Nicholas W. Taylor

Various coefficients of the 3.5 post-Newtonian (PN) phasing formula of non-spinning compact binaries moving in circular orbits is fully characterized by the two component masses. If two of these coefficients are independently measured, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Archana Pai , K. G. Arun

Exploiting simple yet remarkable properties of relativistic gravitational scattering, we use first-order self-force (linear-in-mass-ratio) results to obtain arbitrary-mass-ratio results for the complete third-subleading post-Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Andrea Antonelli , Chris Kavanagh , Mohammed Khalil , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

Binary compact objects will be among the important sources for the future space-based gravitational wave detectors. Such binary compact objects include stellar massive binary black hole, binary neutron star, binary white dwarf and mixture…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Li-Fang Li , Zhoujian Cao

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

Gravitational waves have been detected from the inspiral of a binary neutron-star, GW170817, which allowed constraints to be placed on the neutron star equation of state. The equation of state can be further constrained if gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Paul J. Easter , Paul D. Lasky , Andrew R. Casey , Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami