The Post-Newtonian description of coalescing binaries as sources of gravitational waves
by
DrRiccardo Sturani(Universita' di Urbino)
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131 (INFN Edificio C)
131
INFN Edificio C
Description
We give an overview of the recent development in the computation of
the effective
two body dynamics in General Relativity, with special emphasis to the
effective field theory (EFT) approach.
We show how phenomena usually associated with quantum physics, like
divergences and renormalization,
appear within an EFT analysis of purely classical problems like the
post-Newtonian expansion of classical relativity.
The study of the gravitational two body problem is of outstanding
phenomenological interest due to the forthcoming
observation run by the large interferometer Virgo and LIGO, due to
start in fall 2014, and
an overview of the present and near future plan of the gravitational
wave search will be given.