Gravitational radiation from a particle in circular orbit around a black hole. VI. Accuracy of the post-Newtonian expansion

Abstract

A particle of mass $\mu$ moves on a circular orbit around a nonrotating black hole of mass $M$. Under the assumption $\mu \ll M$ the gravitational waves emitted by such a binary system can be calculated exactly numerically using black-hole perturbation theory. If, further, the particle is slowly moving, then the waves can be calculated approximately analytically, and expressed in the form of a post-Newtonian expansion. We determine the accuracy of this expansion in a quantitative way by calculating the reduction in signal-to-noise ratio incurred when matched filtering the exact signal with a nonoptimal, post-Newtonian filter.

5 pages, ReVTeX, 1 figure. A typographical error was discovered in the computer code used to generate the results presented in the paper. The corrected results are presented in an Erratum, which also incorporates new results, obtained using the recently improved post-Newtonian calculations of Tanaka, Tagoshi, and Sasaki

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