"Gravitational Radiation from Post-Newtonian Sources
and Inspiralling Compact Binaries"
by
Luc Blanchet
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Abstract
1
Introduction
1.1
Gravitational-wave generation formalisms
1.2
Problem posed by compact binary systems
1.3
Post-Newtonian equations of motion and radiation
2
Einstein’s Field Equations
3
Linearized Vacuum Equations
4
Non-linear Iteration of the Field Equations
4.1
The post-Minkowskian solution
4.2
Generality of the solution
4.3
Near-zone and far-zone structures
4.4
The radiative multipole moments
5
Exterior Field of a Post-Newtonian Source
5.1
The matching equation
5.2
General expression of the multipole expansion
5.3
Equivalence with the Will-Wiseman formalism
5.4
The source multipole moments
6
Non-linear Multipole Interactions
7
The Third Post-Newtonian Metric
8
Hadamard Self-Field Regularization
8.1
Definitions
8.2
Regularization ambiguities
9
Newtonian-like Equations of Motion
9.1
The 3PN accelerations and energy
9.2
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations
9.3
Equations of motion for circular orbits
10
Gravitational Waves from Compact Binaries
10.1
The binary’s multipole moments
10.2
Contribution of wave tails
10.3
Orbital phase evolution
10.4
The two polarization wave-forms
11
Acknowledgments
References
Footnotes
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