Introductory Lectures on the Effective One Body Formalism
Abstract
The Effective One Body (EOB) formalism is an analytical approach which aims at providing an accurate description of the motion and radiation of coalescing binary black holes. We present a brief review of the basic elements of this approach.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Pub Date:
- 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0217751X08039992
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0802.4047
- Bibcode:
- 2008IJMPA..23.1130D
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 22 pages, 3 figures, lectures given at the Second ICRANet Stueckelberg Workshop on Relativistic Field Theories (Pescara, Italy, September 3-8, 2007)