Estimating effective higher order terms in the post-Newtonian binding energy and gravitational-wave flux: Non-spinning compact binary inspiral

Shasvath J. Kapadia, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Parameswaran Ajith

In the adiabatic post-Newtonian (PN) approximation, the phase evolution of gravitational waves (GWs) from inspiralling compact binaries in quasicircular orbits is computed by equat…