Using the main result of a companion paper, in which the binding energy of a circular-orbit nonspinning compact binary system is computed at leading-order beyond the test-particle approximation, the exact expression of the effective-one-body (EOB) metric component gtteff is obtained through first order in the mass ratio. Combining these results with the recent gravitational self-force calculation of the periastron advance for circular orbits in the Schwarzschild geometry, the EOB metric component grreff is also determined at linear order in the mass ratio. These results assume that the mapping between the real and effective Hamiltonians at the second and third post-Newtonian (PN) orders holds at all PN orders. Our findings also confirm the advantage of resumming the PN dynamics around the test-particle limit if the goal is to obtain a flexible model that can smoothly connect the test-mass and equal-mass limits.

Complete nonspinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio / Barausse, E; Buonanno, A; Le Tiec, A. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY. - ISSN 1550-7998. - 85:6(2012), pp. 1-11. [10.1103/PhysRevD.85.064010]

Complete nonspinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio

Barausse E;
2012-01-01

Abstract

Using the main result of a companion paper, in which the binding energy of a circular-orbit nonspinning compact binary system is computed at leading-order beyond the test-particle approximation, the exact expression of the effective-one-body (EOB) metric component gtteff is obtained through first order in the mass ratio. Combining these results with the recent gravitational self-force calculation of the periastron advance for circular orbits in the Schwarzschild geometry, the EOB metric component grreff is also determined at linear order in the mass ratio. These results assume that the mapping between the real and effective Hamiltonians at the second and third post-Newtonian (PN) orders holds at all PN orders. Our findings also confirm the advantage of resumming the PN dynamics around the test-particle limit if the goal is to obtain a flexible model that can smoothly connect the test-mass and equal-mass limits.
2012
85
6
1
11
064010
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.064010
https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5610
Barausse, E; Buonanno, A; Le Tiec, A
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