Title:	The third post-Newtonian gravitational wave polarizations and associated spherical harmonic modes for inspiralling compact binaries in quasi-circular orbits
Authors:	Blanchet, Luc Faye, Guillaume Iyer, B.R. Sinha, Siddhartha
Issue Date:	Jul-2008
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
Citation:	Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2008, Vol.25, 165003
Abstract:	The gravitational waveform (GWF) generated by inspiralling compact binaries moving in quasi-circular orbits is computed at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) approximation to general relativity. Our motivation is two-fold: (i) to provide accurate templates for the data analysis of gravitational wave inspiral signals in laser interferometric detectors; (ii) to provide the associated spin-weighted spherical harmonic decomposition to facilitate comparison and match of the high post-Newtonian prediction for the inspiral waveform to the numerically-generated waveforms for the merger and ringdown. This extension of the GWF by half a PN order (with respect to previous work at 2.5PN order) is based on the algorithm of the multipolar post-Minkowskian formalism, and mandates the computation of the relations between the radiative, canonical and source multipole moments for general sources at 3PN order. We also obtain the 3PN extension of the source multipole moments in the case of compact binaries, and compute the contributions of hereditary terms (tails, tails-of-tails and memory integrals) up to 3PN order. The end results are given for both the complete plus and cross polarizations and the separate spin-weighted spherical harmonic modes.
Description:	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3678
ISSN:	E-ISSN: 1361-6382 P-ISSN: 0264-9381
Alternative Location:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/25/16/165003
Copyright:	2008 IOP Publishing
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (TP)

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