Radiation-reaction and angular momentum loss at the second post-Minkowskian order
Donato Bini, Thibault Damour
Abstract
We compute the variation of the Fokker-Wheeler-Feynman total linear and angular momentum of a gravitationally interacting binary system under the second post-Minkowskian retarded dynamics. The resulting $O({G}^{2})$ equations-of-motion-based, total change in the system's angular momentum is found to agree with existing computations that assumed balance with angular momentum fluxes in the radiation zone.
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Angular momentumPhysicsTotal angular momentum quantum numberDynamics (music)Classical mechanicsAngular momentum couplingAngular momentum of lightComputationMomentum (technical analysis)RadiationQuantum electrodynamicsMathematicsQuantum mechanicsAlgorithmEconomicsAcousticsFinanceCosmology and Gravitation TheoriesPulsars and Gravitational Waves ResearchCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates