Gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries: Energy loss and waveform to second-post-Newtonian order
Gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries: Energy loss and waveform to second-post-Newtonian order
Gravitational waves generated by inspiralling compact binaries are investigated to the second-post-Newtonian (2PN) approximation of general relativity. Using a recently developed 2PN-accurate wave generation formalism, we compute the gravitational waveform and associated energy loss rate from a binary system of point masses moving on a quasicircular orbit. The crucial new …