Speaker
Lara Bohnenblust
Description
The next generation of gravitational wave detectors will require precise waveform templates for binaries with high mass ratios and eccentricities. One tantalizing method is the post-Minkowskian(PM) expansion. Using tools from particle physics the scattering angle and a conservative potential have been found up to 4th order in G.
We discuss two methods to generate waveforms using the PM expansion. The first formalism is based on quantum observables where one can extract the full waveform directly from the scattering amplitudes. The second method makes use of the resummation into an effective one body potential and the mode expansion.
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Author
Lara Bohnenblust
