Post-Newtonian Theory and its Application
| dc.creator | Blanchet, Luc | |
| dc.date | 2003-04-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:27:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:27:45Z | |
| dc.description | We review some recent works on the post-Newtonian theory of slowly-moving (post-Newtonian) sources, and its application to the problems of dynamics and gravitational radiation from compact binary systems. Our current knowledge is 3PN on the center-of-mass energy and 3.5PN on the gravitational-wave flux of inspiralling compact binaries. We compute the innermost circular orbit (ICO) of binary black-hole systems and find a very good agreement with the result of numerical relativity. We argue that the gravitational dynamics of two bodies of comparable masses in general relativity does not resemble that of a test particle on a Schwarzschild background. This leads us to question the validity of some ``Schwarzschild-like'' templates for binary inspiral which are constructed from post-Newtonian resummation techniques. | |
| dc.description | 16 pages, to appear in the Proc. of the 12th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation, M. Shibata (ed.) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304014 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304014 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/34556 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Post-Newtonian Theory and its Application | |
| dc.type | text |