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Large-Eccentricity Asymptotics and Fast Analytic Approximation for Fourier modes of Post-Newtonian Eccentric Waveforms

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-04-29 v1

Abstract

In this work, we developed analytic asymptotic methods for computing the Fourier modes of gravitational waves from post-Newtonian binary systems in the quasi-Keplerian parametrization in the high eccentricity regime. We have also derived the large-eccentricity asymptotic expansion of the eccentricity enhancement function appearing in the tail contributions to the radiation. Furthermore, based on these results, we constructed an endpoint-constrained analytic approximation that significantly accelerate the computation of the Fourier modes at large eccentricity.The overall error of this analytic approximation is controlled within 10310^{-3}, and it remains valid for Fourier modes with p200p\le200. This approach provides an analytic building blocks for modeling frequency-domain gravitational wave from highly eccentric binaries.

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@article{arxiv.2604.25536,
  title  = {Large-Eccentricity Asymptotics and Fast Analytic Approximation for Fourier modes of Post-Newtonian Eccentric Waveforms},
  author = {Xiaolin Liu and Zhoujian Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.25536},
  year   = {2026}
}

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47 pages, 6 figures

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