In [1], we developed a parameterized post-Einsteinian (ppE) model for the evolution of gravitational wave (GW) bursts from highly eccentric binary systems in time-frequency space. We here correct a few mistakes in some ingredients of the model.
I. KEPLER PROBLEM IN THE PPE FORMALISMAs part of the computation of a ppE burst model, we considered an effective one body description for binary systems with generic modifications to the Newtonian potential. We claimed that the Newtonian potential within a generic modified theory of gravity can be written as shown in Eq. (B1) of [1], where the corrections scale as M/r p , with M the total mass of the binary and r p the pericenter distance of the binary. While the derivations in Appendix B of [1] are self-consistent, this scaling of the corrections is not suitable for some modified theories. We here generalize the results of this appendix to allow the model to apply to a wider set of theories.For equatorial orbits, the corrections to the Newtonian kinetic energy and gravitational potential within a modified theory of gravity may be written aswhere µ is the reduce mass of the binary, (α,β,γ) are amplitude parameters that depend on the coupling constants of the theory, and (ã,b,c) ∈ R that control the post-Newtonian (PN With this potential, we now compute the corrections to orbital quantities necessary to construct the ppE burst model, namely the orbital energy, angular momentum, period, and pericenter velocity. Let us begin by considering the Lagrangian for the binary within an effective one-body formalism. At leading (Newtonian) PN order, the Lagrangian for equatorial orbits may be written as L = T − U , with T = (1/2)µ(ṙ 2 + r 2φ2 ) + δT and U = −µM/r + δU . This Lagrangian admits two conserved quantities associated with the orbital energy and angular momentum, specificallyBy studying the turning points (ṙ = 0) of Eq. (3), and writing E = E N + δE and L = L N + δL, we findwith the Newtonian energy and angular momentum (E N , L N ) given in Eqs. (5.2) and (5.3) in [2], andThese deformations can be related to the generic deformation for the energy and angular momentum given in nonlinearity of the point particle Lagrangian, higher order terms in the velocity can couple to the modifications to the metric. Here, we are only concerned with the leading order terms, i.e. those that scale as v 2 × (α,β,γ).
arXiv:1404.0092v3 [gr-qc] 2 Oct 20172 Eqs. (27) and (28) where LO stands for the leading-order term in a PN expansion. Now, let us consider the orbital period within our ppE formalism. In order to do this, it is useful to parametrize the radius of the orbit aswhere p = r p (1 + e) is the semi-latus rectum of the orbit and ψ increases monotonically by 2π from one pericenter passage to the next. The reason for this parametrization is that, in general, any deformation to the Newtonian potential will cause the orbits to precess [3], and as a result, the orbit will return to pericenter when φ = 2π + O (M/r p ). Using ψ to parameterize the orbit allows us to avoid complications from ...