Complete nonspinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio

Enrico Barausse, Alessandra Buonanno, and Alexandre Le Tiec
Phys. Rev. D 85, 064010 – Published 7 March 2012

Abstract

Using the main result of a companion paper, in which the binding energy of a circular-orbit nonspinning compact binary system is computed at leading-order beyond the test-particle approximation, the exact expression of the effective-one-body (EOB) metric component gtteff is obtained through first order in the mass ratio. Combining these results with the recent gravitational self-force calculation of the periastron advance for circular orbits in the Schwarzschild geometry, the EOB metric component grreff is also determined at linear order in the mass ratio. These results assume that the mapping between the real and effective Hamiltonians at the second and third post-Newtonian (PN) orders holds at all PN orders. Our findings also confirm the advantage of resumming the PN dynamics around the test-particle limit if the goal is to obtain a flexible model that can smoothly connect the test-mass and equal-mass limits.

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  • Received 23 November 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.064010

© 2012 American Physical Society

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Enrico Barausse1, Alessandra Buonanno1,2, and Alexandre Le Tiec1

  • 1Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics & Joint Space-Science Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 2Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

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Vol. 85, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2012

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