Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Periastron Advance in Black-Hole Binaries

2011; American Physical Society; Volume: 107; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.107.141101

1092-0145

Alexandre Le Tiec, Abdul Mroué, Leor Barack, Alessandra Buonanno, Harald Pfeiffer, Norichika Sago, Andrea Taracchini,

Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

The general relativistic (Mercury-type) periastron advance is calculated here for the first time with exquisite precision in full general relativity. We use accurate numerical relativity simulations of spinless black-hole binaries with mass ratios 1/8≤m(1)/m(2)≤1 and compare with the predictions of several analytic approximation schemes. We find the effective-one-body model to be remarkably accurate and, surprisingly, so also the predictions of self-force theory [replacing m(1)/m(2)→m(1)m(2)/(m(1)+m(2))(2)]. Our results can inform a universal analytic model of the two-body dynamics, crucial for ongoing and future gravitational-wave searches.