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Phys. Rev. D 68, 044004 (2003) [19 pages]

Binary black-hole dynamics at the third-and-a-half post-Newtonian order in the ADM formalism

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Christian Königsdörffer*, Guillaume Faye, and Gerhard Schäfer
Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany

Received 17 April 2003; published 6 August 2003

We specialize the radiation-reaction part of the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner Hamiltonian for many nonspinning pointlike bodies, calculated by Jaranowski and Schäfer, to third-and-a-half post-Newtonian approximation to general relativity, to binary systems. This Hamiltonian is used for the computation of the instantaneous gravitational energy loss of a binary to 1PN reactive order. We also derive the equations of motion, which include PN reactive terms via Hamiltonian and Euler-Lagrangian approaches. The results are consistent with the expressions for reactive acceleration provided by the Iyer-Will formalism in a general class of gauges.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.044004
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.044004
PACS:
04.25.Nx, 04.30.Db, 97.60.Jd, 97.60.Lf

*Electronic address: C.Koenigsdoerffer@tpi.uni-jena.de