Gravitational Waves from Spinning Compact Binaries

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2002-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0207016v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages

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Binary systems of rapidly spinning compact objects, such as black holes or neutron stars, are prime targets for gravitational wave astronomers. The dynamics of these systems can be very complicated due to spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings. Contradictory results have been presented as to the nature of the dynamics. Here we confirm that the dynamics - as described by the second post-Newtonian approximation to general relativity - is chaotic, despite claims to the contrary. When dissipation due to higher order radiation reaction terms are included, the chaos is dampened. However, the inspiral-to-plunge transition that occurs toward the end of the orbital evolution does retain an imprint of the chaotic behaviour.

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