Published October 21, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

A note on the radiation reaction in the 2.5PN waveform from inspiralling binaries in quasi-circular orbits

  • 1. Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (United States)
  • 2. GRECO Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, C.N.R.S., 98bis boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris (France)
  • 3. Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560 080 (India)

Description

In this note we compute the contributions of the radiation reaction force in the 2.5 post-Newtonian (PN) gravitational wave polarizations for compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits. (i) We point out and correct an inconsistency in the derivation of (1). (ii) We prove that all contributions from the radiation reaction in the 2.5PN waveform are actually negligible since they can be absorbed into a modification of the orbital phase at the 5PN order. (comments, replies and notes)

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/24/20/N01;
PII
S0264-9381(07)52007-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
24
Journal Issue
20
Journal Page Range
p. 5307-5312
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39043888
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; MODIFICATIONS; ORBITS; POLARIZATION; WAVE FORMS