Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 221101 (2005) [4 pages]Gravitational Radiation Reaction and Inspiral Waveforms in the Adiabatic LimitReceived 24 January 2005; published 7 June 2005 We describe progress evolving an important limit of binaries in general relativity: stellar mass compact objects spiraling into much larger black holes. Such systems are of great observational interest. We have developed tools to compute for the first time the radiation from generic orbits. Using global conservation laws, we find the orbital evolution and waveforms for special cases. For generic orbits, inspirals and waveforms can be found by augmenting our approach with an adiabatic self-force rule due to Mino. Such waveforms should be accurate enough for gravitational-wave searches. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.221101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.221101
PACS:
04.30.Db, 04.25.Nx, 95.30.Sf, 97.60.Lf
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