Ineffectiveness of Padé resummation techniques in post-Newtonian approximations

Details Ineffectiveness of Padé resummation techniques in post-Newtonian approximations Ineffectiveness of Padé resummation techniques in post-Newtonian approximations

2008-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/0805.2390v3

Phys.Rev.D78:044004,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

13 pages, 7 figures. added some references

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.044004

We test the resummation techniques used in developing Pad\'e and Effective One Body (EOB) waveforms for gravitational wave detection. Convergence tests show that Pad\'e approximants of the gravitational wave energy flux do not accelerate the convergence of the standard Taylor approximants even in the test mass limit, and there is no reason why Pad\'e transformations should help in estimating parameters better in data analysis. Moreover, adding a pole to the flux seems unnecessary in the construction of these Pad\'e-approximated flux formulas. Pad\'e approximants may be useful in suggesting the form of fitting formulas. We compare a 15-orbit numerical waveform of the Caltech-Cornell group to the suggested Pad\'e waveforms of Damour et al. in the equal mass, nonspinning quasi-circular case. The comparison suggests that the Pad\'e waveforms do not agree better with the numerical waveform than the standard Taylor based waveforms. Based on this result, we design a simple EOB model by modifiying the ET EOB model of Buonanno et al., using the Taylor series of the flux with an unknown parameter at the fourth post-Newtonian order that we fit for. This simple EOB model generates a waveform having a phase difference of only 0.002 radians with the numerical waveform, much smaller than 0.04 radians the phase uncertainty in the numerical data itself. An EOB Hamiltonian can make use of a Pad\'e transformation in its construction, but this is the only place Pad\'e transformations seem useful.

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