Secular gravitational-wave phasing to 3PN order for low-eccentricity inspiraling binaries

ORAL

Abstract

While gravitational waves cause binaries to circularize, several astrophysical scenarios suggest that some binaries will have non-negligible eccentricities when entering the LIGO frequency band. Time-domain waveforms for arbitrary eccentricity and to 3PN order are provided by the quasi-Keplerian formalism, but are computationally costly. Here we use a simplification of the quasi-Keplerian formalism to produce a fast, analytic waveform for the secular phasing of low-eccentricity binaries to 3PN order. We will discuss how this waveform is constructed, its domain of validity, and possible applications.

*This research is supported by NSF Grant No. PHY-1308527.

Authors

  • Blake Moore

    • Montclair State University
  • Marc Favata

    • Montclair State University
  • K. G. Arun

    • Chennai Mathematical Institute
  • Chandra Mishra

    • International Centre for Theoretical Sciences