First Law of Compact Binary Mechanics with Gravitational-Wave Tails
Feb 22, 201723 pages
Published in:
- Class.Quant.Grav. 34 (2017) 16, 164001
- Published: Jul 14, 2017
e-Print:
- 1702.06839 [gr-qc]
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Abstract: (IOP)
We derive the first law of binary point-particle mechanics for generic bound (i.e. eccentric) orbits at the fourth post-Newtonian (4PN) order, accounting for the non-locality in time of the dynamics due to the occurence of a gravitational-wave tail effect at that order. Using this first law, we show how the periastron advance of the binary system can be related to the averaged redshift of one of the two bodies for a slightly non-circular orbit, in the limit where the eccentricity vanishes. Combining this expression with existing analytical self-force results for the averaged redshift, we recover the known 4PN expression for the circular-orbit periastron advance, to linear order in the mass ratio.Note:
- 25 pages, matches published version
- 04.25.Nx
- 04.30.-w
- 97.60.Jd
- 97.60.Lf
- binary: compact
- gravitational radiation
- gravitational radiation: emission
- binary
- mechanics
- redshift
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