nLab relativistic binary

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A gravitationally bound state of two massive objects in general relativity. Inspirals of relativistic binaries are a common source of gravitational waves.

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Advanced computational techniques via gravitational Feynman diagrams:

  • Thibault Damour, High-energy gravitational scattering and the general relativistic two-body problem, Phys. Rev. D 97, 044038 (2018) (arXiv:1710.10599)

  • Donato Bini, Thibault Damour, Gravitational spin-orbit coupling in binary systems at the second post-Minkowskian approximation, Phys. Rev. D 98, 044036 (2018) (arXiv:1805.10809)

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Gravitational wave signals

On prediction of gravitational wave profiles emitted by black hole relativistic binaries:

Review of the theoretical predictions and their experimental verification is given in

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