Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-06-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
16 pages, 3 Postscript figures, to appear in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05498.x
A model of three-body motion is developed which includes the effects of gravitational radiation reaction. The radiation reaction due to the emission of gravitational waves is the only post-Newtonian effect that is included here. For simplicity, all of the motion is taken to be planar. Two of the masses are viewed as a binary system and the third mass, whose motion will be a fixed orbit around the center-of-mass of the binary system, is viewed as a perturbation. This model aims to describe the motion of a relativistic binary pulsar that is perturbed by a third mass. Numerical integration of this simplified model reveals that given the right initial conditions and parameters one can see resonances. These (m,n) resonances are defined by the resonance condition, $m\omega=2n\Omega$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime integers and $\omega$ and $\Omega$ are the angular frequencies of the binary orbit and third mass orbit, respectively. The resonance condition consequently fixes a value for the semimajor axis of the binary orbit for the duration of the resonance; therefore, the binary energy remains constant on the average while its angular momentum changes during the resonance.
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