## [1111.5610] The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio

Authors: Enrico Barausse, Alessandra Buonanno, Alexandre Le Tiec

Date: 23 Nov 2011

Abstract: Using the main result of a companion paper, in which the binding energy of a circular-orbit non-spinning compact binary system is computed at leading-order beyond the test-particle approximation, the exact expression of the effective-one-body (EOB) metric component $gˆ\text{eff}_{tt}$ is obtained through first order in the mass ratio. Combining these results with the recent gravitational self-force calculation of the periastron advance for circular orbits in the Schwarzschild geometry, the EOB metric component $gˆ\text{eff}_{rr}$ is also determined at linear order in the mass ratio. These results assume that the mapping between the real and effective Hamiltonians at the second and third post-Newtonian (PN) orders holds at all PN orders. Our findings also confirm the advantage of resumming the PN dynamics around the test-particle limit if the goal is to obtain a flexible model that can smoothly connect the test-mass and equal-mass limits.

#### Nov 23, 2011

1111.5610 (/preprints)
2011-11-23, 23:42