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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 091101 (2004) [4 pages]

Gravitational Radiation from Inspiralling Compact Binaries Completed at the Third Post-Newtonian Order

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Luc Blanchet1, Thibault Damour2, Gilles Esposito-Farèse1, and Bala R. Iyer3
1GReCO, FRE 2435-CNRS, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
2Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 35 route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
3Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560 080, India

Received 3 June 2004; published 26 August 2004

The gravitational radiation from point particle binaries is computed at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation of general relativity. Three previously introduced ambiguity parameters, coming from the Hadamard self-field regularization of the 3PN source-type mass quadrupole moment, are consistently determined by means of dimensional regularization, and proved to have the values ξ=-9871/9240, κ=0, and ζ=-7/33. These results complete the derivation of the general relativistic prediction for compact binary inspiral up to 3.5PN order, and should be of use for searching and deciphering the signals in the current network of gravitational wave detectors.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.091101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.091101
PACS:
04.30.–w, 04.25.–g