2011/11/30 by Stefano Foffa, S. Foffa, R. Sturani +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.87.044056
17 pages, 3 figures. Result interpretation revised in v2, figures and reference added
arxiv created 2012/12/24 · openalex publication_date 2013/02/27 · arxiv updated 2013/03/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Gravitational radiation reaction affects the dynamics of gravitationally bound binary systems. Here we focus on the leading ``tail'' term which modifies binary dynamics at fourth post-Newtonian order, as first computed by Blanchet and Damour. We reproduce this result using effective field theory techniques in the framework of the Lagrangian formalism suitably extended to include dissipation effects. We recover the known logarithmic tail term, consistently with the recent interpretation of the logarithmic tail term in the mass parameter, as a renormalization group effect of the Bondi mass of the system.