Integrability of eccentric, spinning black-hole binaries up to second post-Newtonian order

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• Leo Stein, University of Mississippi
• Wednesday 30 September 2020, 14:00-15:00
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Accurate gravitational waveforms are necessary for LIGO and LISA sources, and especially for the prospect of multi-band gravitational wave observations. Computing these waveforms accurately is expensive because of the complicated precession dynamics over a very large number of orbits. The most complicated scenario is an eccentric binary where both spins and the orbital plane are precessing. Current state-of-the-art waveform models rely on analytical approximations like orbit averaging and a small-eccentricity expansion. I will present work towards avoiding these approximations by exploiting integrability of the Hamiltonian dynamics of eccentric, spinning black hole binaries. Integrability lets us construct action-angle variables, which make the evolution very simple for arbitrarily long times. We will present four out of five of the action integrals at 1.5PN. And while post-Newtonian corrections break integrability, we can recover it in a perturbative sense. We will present explicit (perturbative) constants of motion at 2PN order, and the method that was used to find them.

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