2015

Spin effects on the dynamics of compact binaries

Steinhoff, Jan

Understand

Compact binaries are the most promising source for the advanced gravitational wave detectors, which will start operating this year.

  • The influence of spin on the binary evolution is an important consequence of general relativity and can be large.
  • It is argued that the spin supplementary condition, which is related to the observer dependence of the center, gives rise to a gauge symmetry in the action principle of spinning point-particles.
  • These spinning point-particles serve as an analytic model for extended bodies.

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