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Classical and quantum scattering in post-Minkowskian gravity
Thibault Damour
New structural properties of post-Minkowskian (PM) gravity are derived, notably within its effective one body (EOB) formulation. Our results concern both the mass dependence, and t…
Comparing Effective One Body Hamiltonians for spin-aligned coalescing binaries
Piero Rettegno, Fabio Martinetti, Alessandro Nagar +3
TEOBResumS and SEOBNRv4 are the two existing semi-analytical gravitational waveform models for spin-aligned coalescing black hole binaries based on the effective-one-body approach.…
Space test of the Equivalence Principle: first results of the MICROSCOPE mission
Pierre Touboul, Gilles Métris, Manuel Rodrigues +31
The Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), stating that two bodies of different compositions and/or mass fall at the same rate in a gravitational field (universality of free fall), is a…
Self-force effects on the marginally bound zoom-whirl orbit in Schwarzschild spacetime
Leor Barack, Marta Colleoni, Thibault Damour +2
For a Schwarzchild black hole of mass , we consider a test particle falling from rest at infinity and becoming trapped, at late time, on the unstable circular orbit of radius $r…
Novel approach to binary dynamics: application to the fifth post-Newtonian level
Donato Bini, Thibault Damour, Andrea Geralico
We introduce a new methodology for deriving the conservative dynamics of gravitationally interacting binary systems. Our approach combines, in a novel way, several theoretical form…
Quantum instability of an oscillating universe
Thibault Damour, Alexander Vilenkin
An oscillating, compact Friedmann universe with a massive conformally coupled scalar field is studied in the framework of quantum cosmology. The scalar field is treated as a pertur…
Spherically symmetric solutions in torsion bigravity
Thibault Damour, Vasilisa Nikiforova
We study spherically symmetric solutions in a four-parameter Einstein-Cartan-type class of theories. These theories include torsion, as well as the metric, as dynamical fields, and…