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Damour, Thibault | |||||||
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IHES - 35 route de Chartres - Bures sur Yvette - Essonne - France | |||||||
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Gravitational Radiation and the Problem of Motion: A Centenary Assessment | |||||
| Coauthors | Damour, Thibault | |||||||
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Abstract |
A network of ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors (LIGO/Virgo/...) is currently being upgraded, and should, in a few years, reach a sensitivity enabling them to detect the gravitational waves emitted by coalescing compact binaries: i.e. binary systems made of black holes and/or neutron stars. This prospect has motivated renewed theoretical studies of the motion and radiation of relativistic two-body systems. I will review both the history of the general relativistic problem of motion, and the recent analytical studies of (comparable-mass) two-body systems. The comparison of analytical results to numerical relativity results will also be discussed. Particular attention will be given to the recently developed "Effective One Body" approach to the motion and radiation of binary systems. |
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