Gravitational radiation reaction and inspiral waveforms in the adiabatic limit -: art. no. 221101

被引：98

作者：

Hughes, SA

Drasco, S

Flanagan, ÉÉ

Franklin, J

机构：

[1] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[2] MIT, Kavli Inst, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[3] Cornell Univ, Ctr Radiophys & Space Res, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2005年 / 94卷 / 22期

关键词：

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.221101

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We describe progress evolving an important limit of binaries in general relativity: stellar mass compact objects spiraling into much larger black holes. Such systems are of great observational interest. We have developed tools to compute for the first time the radiation from generic orbits. Using global conservation laws, we find the orbital evolution and waveforms for special cases. For generic orbits, inspirals and waveforms can be found by augmenting our approach with an adiabatic self-force rule due to Mino. Such waveforms should be accurate enough for gravitational-wave searches.

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