610 Index
Lorentz-Dirac force, 380, 382–383
radiation reaction, 277, 279
self-force, 255, 272, 291, 334, 583
electromagnetism, 4–6, 51, 266, 270, 563
in Minkowski spacetime, 266
electron mass, 71, 79
electrostatics, 279
electroweak interactions, 5
elementary particles, 1–3, 8, 21, 53
elements
caesium, 68, 84
deuterium, 79
hydrogen, see hydrogen
krypton, 69
silicon, 79, 81–82, 84
elliptic regularity, 256
EMRI, 301, 327, 347, 355, 361, 395, 411–413,
416, 443, 449–450, 582, 593, 597,
see extreme mass ratio inspiral
and IMRI, 449–451, 456
detection of, 327, 396, 451–452, 454
observations, 456
Signal Characteristics, 452–454
waveforms, 327, 408, 455
energy flux, 105, 150, 157, 187, 206, 215,
226–230, 233, 236–238, 243–244,
246–248, 591, 597
energy in General Relativity, 91
absorbed by the black hole, 578, 592
Bondi energy, 105, 107
Bondi mass, 107, 115
energy-momentum conservation, 367, 392,
515
energy-momentum tensor, 33, 88–91, 103,
109–110, 352, 369, 371–2, 376,
389, 476, 482, 493–494, 498–499,
505, 508, 510, 512, 514–518, 575
ADM and Bondi-Sachs, 122
canonical, 91
general relativity, 88, 121
Landau-Lifshitz, 91, 201
entropy conservation law, 170
EOB (effective one body)
approach, 212–213, 215–216, 223, 238
dynamics, 224, 230, 238–242
plunge phase, 239
effective horizon, 221
Hamiltonian, 213, 224, 231
late-inspiral dynamics, 248
plunge signal, 213
method, 212, 216, 219, 224, 249, 597
metric, 225, 247
EOM, 408, see equation of motion
ephemeris (ephemerides), 43, 525
epicycles, 304
equation of motion, 11, 25, 28, 33–34, 46,
49–51, 54–57, 60, 126–128, 150,
153, 156–159, 162–163, 168,
170, 174–175, 177, 181, 184,
186, 192–193, 200–201, 213–214,
216, 224–225, 238–239, 241–242,
254, 259–260, 309, 316, 321–322,
324, 367–368, 370–372, 377, 379,
391–392, 408, 411, 420–421, 425,
431, 451, 453, 465, 510–511,
515–516, 518, 534, 536, 551, 555,
558, 582–583, 596
equivalence principle, 41, 49, 76, 389, 462,
464, 471, 475, 479, 485, 491, 493,
514–515, 526–527, 565–566
Einstein, see Einstein
strong, see strong
weak, 565
ESA (European Space Agency), 443
Euler-Lagrange equations, 55, 551
even-parity, 230–231, 233, 236, 238, 418,
574–575
exotic, 46, 427
expansion
Fourier, 359–360
Hadamard, see Hadamard
higher order, 593
Laurent, 133, 151, 155, 380, 420, 497
matched asymptotic, 135, 259, 264, 305,
324–325, 328, 332, 583
multipole, see multipole
post-Newtonian (PN), see post-Newtonian
(PN)
Taylor, see Taylor
extended bodies, 149, 477, 485
extensions of the Standard Model, 21
extra-dimensions, 378, see higher dimensions
extreme mass ratio
binaries, 416
inspiral, 253, 416, 449, see EMRI
limit, 253, 432
extreme situations, 26, 27
extrinsic curvature, 93–94, 97–98, 100, 105,
109–110, 112, 114, 173, 184, 254
F
factorized decomposition, 232
false alarm rate, 456
far zone, 168, 186, 202, 205–206, 259, 267
Fermi normal coordinates, 258, 267–268, 285,
309, 313
Feynman propagator, 257