Assessment of effective-one-body radiation reactions for generic planar orbits

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  • Simone Albanesi
  • Alessandro Nagar
  • Sebastiano Bernuzzi
  • Placidi, Andrea
  • Marta Orselli

In this paper, we assess the performances of different analytical prescriptions for the effective-one-body (EOB) radiation reaction along generic planar orbits using exact numerical result in the test-mass limit. We consider three prescriptions put forward in the recent literature: (i) the quasicircular prescription (QC), (ii) the QC with second post-Newtonian (2PN) order noncircular corrections (QC2PN), and (iii) the QC corrected by the noncircular Newtonian prefactor (NCN). The analytical fluxes are then compared against the exact fluxes that are computed by solving the Teukolsky equation with a test-mass source in geodesic motion. We find that the NCN prescription is the most accurate for both eccentric and hyperbolic orbits, and it is in robust agreement also for large values of the eccentricity. This result carries over to the comparable masses, as we discuss for a numerical-relativity (NR) case study. We also demonstrate that, while the EOB/NR waveform unfaithfulness is a necessary check for the precision of EOB models, the direct comparison of EOB/NR fluxes is a more stringent and informative test to select the best prescription. Finally, we propose an improved radiation reaction, NCN2PN, that includes noncircular 2PN corrections, in resummed form, as a further multiplicative contribution and that is valid for any mass ratio.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104031
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume105
Issue number10
Number of pages22
ISSN2470-0010
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 May 2022

    Research areas

  • BLACK-HOLE MERGER, GRAVITATIONAL-RADIATION, EQUATIONS, PARTICLE

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