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Archive for the ‘post-Newtonian theory’ Category

The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5610

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Tiec, Alexandre Le
11 pages, 2 figures

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The First Law of Binary Black Hole Mechanics in General Relativity and Post-Newtonian Theory

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5378

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Blanchet, Luc and Whiting, Bernard F.
43 pages, 3 figures

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Analytical meets numerical relativity – status of complete gravitational waveform models

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3737

by Ohme, Frank
12 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, NRDA2011/Amaldi 9 proceedings

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Importance of including small body spin effects in the modelling of intermediate mass-ratio inspirals. II Accurate parameter extraction of strong sources using higher-order spin effects

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3243

by Huerta, E. A. and Gair, Jonathan R. and Brown, Duncan A.
22 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.3567

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Energy versus Angular Momentum in Black Hole Binaries

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2938

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
4 pages, 2 figures

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Elimination of the spin supplementary condition in the effective field theory approach to the post-Newtonian approximation

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2094

by Hergt, Steven and Steinhoff, Jan and Schaefer, Gerhard
37 pages, submitted

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Accurate gravitational waveforms for binary-black-hole mergers with nearly extremal spins

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2229

by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Boyle, Michael and Scheel, Mark A. and Szilagyi, Bela
17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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The butterfly effect in the extreme-mass ratio inspiral problem

Monday, August 29th, 2011

arXiv:1108.5174

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Brem, Patrick and Cuadra, Jorge and Armitage, Philip J.
Submitted

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Stability and chaos of hierarchical three black hole configurations

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4485

by Galaviz, Pablo
15 pages, 15 figures and 4 tables

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The gravitational-wave memory from eccentric binaries

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3121

by Favata, Marc
25 pages, 8 figures

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Binary dynamics from spin1-spin2 coupling at fourth post-Newtonian order

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4322

by Levi, Michele
24 pages, revtex4-1, 5 figures

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Next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian spin(1)-spin(2) Hamiltonian for self-gravitating binaries

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4294

by Hartung, Johannes and Steinhoff, Jan
7 pages, submitted to AdP

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Effective one body Hamiltonian of two spinning black-holes with next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit coupling

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1106.4349

by Nagar, Alessandro
11 pages, no figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Periastron Advance in Black Hole Binaries

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3278

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Mroué, Abdul H. and Barack, Leor and Buonanno, Alessandra and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Sago, Norichika and Taracchini, Andrea
5 pages, 3 figures

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Tail-induced spin-orbit effect in the gravitational radiation of compact binaries

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5659

by Blanchet, Luc and Buonanno, Alessandra and Faye, Guillaume
Submitted to Physical Review D

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Gravitational radiation for extreme mass ratio inspirals to the 14th post-Newtonian order

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5615

by Fujita, Ryuichi
4 pages, 2 figures

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Accuracy of the post-Newtonian approximation. II. Optimal asymptotic expansion of the energy flux for quasicircular, extreme mass-ratio inspirals into a Kerr black hole

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1103.6041

by Zhang, Zhongyang and Yunes, Nicolas and Berti, Emanuele
9 pages, 8 figures

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On the unreasonable effectiveness of the post-Newtonian approximation in gravitational physics

Monday, February 28th, 2011

arXiv:1102.5192

by Will, Clifford M.
9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US)

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Black-hole binaries go to eleven orbits

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.3173

by Sperhake, Ulrich and Bruegmann, Bernd and Mueller, Doreen and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
Submitted to CQG, Special Edition for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, 13 pages, 7 figures

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Conservative corrections to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a Kerr black hole: a new gauge-invariant post-Newtonian ISCO condition, and the ISCO shift due to test-particle spin and the gravitational self-force

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2553

by Favata, Marc
17 pages, 2 figures, 1 table

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Accuracy and effectualness of closed-form, frequency-domain waveforms for non-spinning black hole binaries

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.5998

by Damour, T. and Trias, M. and Nagar, A.
29 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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Conservative self-force correction to the innermost stable circular orbit: comparison with multiple post-Newtonian-based methods

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4622

by Favata, Marc
26 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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Length requirements for numerical-relativity waveforms

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2961

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Ajith, P.
13 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables

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Precession effect of the gravitational self-force in a Schwarzschild spacetime and the effective one-body formalism

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.0935

by Barack, Leor and Damour, Thibault and Sago, Norichika
25 pages, 5 eps figures

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High-Accuracy Comparison between the Post-Newtonian and Self-Force Dynamics of Black-Hole Binaries

Friday, July 16th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2614

by Blanchet, Luc and Detweiler, Steven and Tiec, Alexandre Le and Whiting, Bernard F.
29 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the book “Mass and Motion in General Relativity”, proceedings of the C.N.R.S. School in Orleans, France, eds. L. Blanchet, A. Spallicci and B. F. Whiting

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A hybrid method for understanding black-hole mergers: head-on case

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2024

by Nichols, David A. and Chen, Yanbei
13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, revtex4 format

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Full-analytic frequency-domain 1pN-accurate gravitational wave forms from eccentric compact binaries

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3714

by Tessmer, Manuel and Schaefer, Gerhard
28 pages

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Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5560

by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo

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Supermassive black hole spin-flip during the inspiral

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2287

by Gergely, László Á. and Biermann, Peter L. and Caramete, Laurenţiu I.
11 pages, 2 figures

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Spin effects in the phasing of gravitational waves from binaries on eccentric orbits

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2046

by Klein, Antoine and Jetzer, Philippe
7 pages, 1 figure; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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