Formalism
Definition
Spacetime configurations
Properties
Spacetimes
| black hole spacetimes | vanishing angular momentum | positive angular momentum |
|---|---|---|
| vanishing charge | Schwarzschild spacetime | Kerr spacetime |
| positive charge | Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime | Kerr-Newman spacetime |
Quantum theory
A gravitationally bound state of two massive objects in general relativity. Inspirals of relativistic binaries are a common source of gravitational waves.
Survey includes
See also
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)
Reviewed in
On prediction of gravitational wave profiles emitted by black hole relativistic binaries:
Thibault Damour, Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binary Black Holes: Theoretical and Experimental Challenges, talk in Munich, 2010 (web, youtube)
Alessandra Buonanno, Thibault Damour, Effective one-body approach to general relativistic two-body dynamics, Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 084006 (arXiv:gr-qc/9811091)
Alessandra Buonanno, Thibault Damour, Binary black holes coalescence: transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge, IX Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Rome, July 2000 (arXiv:gr-qc/0011052)
Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar, An improved analytical description of inspiralling and coalescing black-hole binaries, Phys.Rev.D79:081503,2009 (arXiv:0902.0136)
Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar, A new analytic representation of the ringdown waveform of coalescing spinning black hole binaries, 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.024054 (arXiv:1406.0401)
Review of the theoretical predictions and their experimental verification is given in
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