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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…

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

Inspiralling binary systems of neutron stars or black holes are promising sources of gravitational radiation detectable by large-scale laser interferometric gravitational observatories, such as the US LIGO and Italian-French VIRGO projects.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Clifford M. WILL

We propose a new numerical method to calculate irrotational binary systems composed of compressible gaseous stars in Newtonian gravity. Assuming irrotationality, i.e. vanishing of the vorticity vector everywhere in the star in the inertial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Koji Uryu , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

Reliable predictions of general relativity theory are extracted using approximation methods. Among these, the powerful post-Newtonian approximation provides us with our best insights into the problems of motion and gravitational radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-12 Luc Blanchet

We obtain analytical gravitational waveforms in the frequency-domain for precessing, quasi-circular compact binaries with small spins, applicable, for example, to binary neutron star inspirals. We begin by calculating an analytic solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-01 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

I review the status of research, conducted by a variety of independent groups, aimed at the eventual observation of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) with gravitational wave detectors. EMRIs are binary systems in which one of the objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Steve Drasco

Numerical relativity is the most promising tool for theoretically modeling the inspiral and coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries, which, in turn, are among the most promising sources of gravitational radiation for future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-09 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact object orbits a massive black hole, are a key source of gravitational waves for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Due to their small mass ratio, ($\epsilon \sim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Philip Lynch , Vojtěch Witzany , Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

One of the promising sources of gravitational radiation is a binary system composed of compact stars. It is an important question how the rotation of the bodies and the eccentricity of the orbit affect the detectable signal. Here we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Mátyás Vasúth , János Majár

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

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

In this short review we present a self-contained exposition of the effective field theory method approach to model the dynamics of gravitationally bound compact binary systems within the post-Newtonian approximation to General Relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefano Foffa , Riccardo Sturani

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

Gravitational-wave data analysis requires a detailed understanding of the highly relativistic, late stages of inspiral of neutron-star and black-hole binaries. A promising method to compute the late inspiral and its emitted waves is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kip S. Thorne

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

Gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals offer a new opportunity to constrain the cosmological time dependence of gravitational coupling parameters, due to the high precision of the observations themselves as well as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Oliver Pitt , Timothy Clifton

The periodic standing wave method studies circular orbits of compact objects coupled to helically symmetric standing wave gravitational fields. From this solution an approximation is extracted for the strong field, slowly inspiralling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-24 Napoleon Hernandez , Richard H. Price

We provide a method for analytically constructing high-accuracy templates for the gravitational wave signals emitted by compact binaries moving in inspiralling eccentric orbits. By contrast to the simpler problem of modeling the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thibault Damour , Achamveedu Gopakumar , Bala R. Iyer

We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein equations in second-order self-force theory, which allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Jeremy Miller , Leanne Durkan , Alexandre Le Tiec

We present results from a new technique which allows extraction of gravitational radiation information from a generic three-dimensional numerical relativity code and provides stable outer boundary conditions. In our approach we match the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luciano Rezzolla , Andrew M. Abrahams , Richard A. Matzner , Mark E. Rupright , Stuart L. Shapiro