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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…

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The inspiral of compact binaries, driven by gravitational-radiation reaction, is investigated through 7/2 post-Newtonian (3.5PN) order beyond the quadrupole radiation. We outline the derivation of the 3.5PN-accurate binary's center-of-mass…

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We perform fully relativistic calculations of binary neutron stars in corotating, circular orbit. While Newtonian gravity allows for a strict equilibrium, a relativistic binary system emits gravitational radiation, causing the system to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 T. W. Baumgarte , G. B. Cook , M. A. Scheel , S. L. Shapiro , S. A. Teukolsky

We study the orbital evolution of eccentric binary neutron stars. The orbit is described as a Quasi-Keplarian orbit with perturbations due to tidal couplings. We find that the tidal interaction between stars contributes to orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Huan Yang

The motion of a spinning particle in the exterior of a Kerr-Newman black hole is studied. The dynamics is governed by the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations in the pole-dipole approximation, including the spin-curvature coupling to leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Ping Chen , Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee

We investigate the (conservative) dynamics of binary black holes using the Hamiltonian formulation of the post-Newtonian (PN) equations of motion. The Hamiltonian we use includes spin-orbit coupling, spin-spin coupling, and mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Michael D. Hartl , Alessandra Buonanno

Starting with a post-Newtonian description of compact binary systems, we derive a set of equations that describes the evolution of the orbital angular momentum and both spin vectors during inspiral. We find regions of phase space that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman

The generalized post-Keplerian parametrization for compact binaries on eccentric bound orbits is established at second post-Newtonian (2PN) order in a class of massless scalar-tensor theories. This result is used to compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-21 David Trestini

Hyperbolic encounters of compact objects are common interactions in dense environments. During this process a significant amount of gravitational radiation is emitted depending on the parameters of the system. Here we give a parametric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-24 Mátyás Vasúth

Orbital motion of a body can be found from Newtonian equation of motion. However, it is useful to express the motion through time derivatives of Keplerian orbital elements, mainly if the motion is perturbed by small perturbing force. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-27 P. Pastor

Eccentricity of binary systems is not a gauge invariant quantity, but has an important impact on the observed gravitational wave signal of such systems, generating power in all possible harmonics of the orbital period. We here clarify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-21 Nicholas Loutrel , Samuel Liebersbach , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

The determination of velocities of stars from precise Doppler measurements is described here using relativistic theory of astronomical reference frames so as to determine the Keplerian and post-Keplerian parameters of binary systems. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Kopeikin , L. M. Ozernoy

The herein presented analytical framework fully describes the motion of coplanar systems consisting of a stellar binary and a planet orbiting both stars on orbital as well as secular timescales. Perturbations of the Runge-Lenz vector are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Nikolaos Georgakarakos , Siegfried Eggl

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

This work is based on the letter Phys. Lett. B, 865, 139484 (2025), where we developed the analytical expression of the coordinate time in terms of the eccentric anomaly at the second post-Newtonian order in General Relativity for a compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Vittorio De Falco , Marco Gallo

The post-post-Newtonian (2PN) accurate mass quadrupole moment, for compact binaries of arbitrary mass ratio, moving in general orbits is obtained by the multi-polar post Minkowskian approach of Blanchet, Damour, and Iyer (BDI). Using this,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 A. Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

The secular evolution of a spinning, massive binary system in eccentric orbit is analyzed, expanding and generalizing our previous treatments of the Lense-Thirring motion and the one-spin limit. The spin-orbit and spin-spin effects up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 László Á. Gergely , Zoltán I. Perjés , Mátyás Vasúth

We present a simple model illustrating how a highly relativistic, compact object which is stable in isolation can be driven dynamically unstable by the tidal field of a binary companion. Our compact object consists of a test-particle in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 S. L. Shapiro

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are among the key sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna space-based gravitational-wave detector. Achieving sufficient accuracy in the gravitational-wave template for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Christiana Pantelidou , Jake Mac Uilliam , Vojtěch Witzany

The motion of spinning particles around compact objects, for example a rotating stellar object moving around a supermassive black hole, is described by differential equations that are, in general, non-integrable. In this work, we present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-27 Jose Miguel Ladino , Carlos Andrés del Valle , Eduard Larrañaga