Analytic approximations, perturbation methods, and their applications

TL;DR

This paper summarizes recent advances in analytic approximations and perturbation methods, focusing on black hole perturbations and post-Newtonian techniques for gravitational wave sources, highlighting progress presented at the GR18 conference.

Contribution

It provides an overview of recent developments in perturbation and approximation methods applied to gravitational wave physics, emphasizing their applications to black holes and post-Newtonian models.

Findings

Advances in black hole perturbation techniques

Progress in post-Newtonian approximation methods

Applications to gravitational wave source modeling

Abstract

The paper summarizes the parallel session B3 {\em Analytic approximations, perturbation methods, and their applications} of the GR18 conference. The talks in the session reported notably recent advances in black hole perturbations and post-Newtonian approximations as applied to sources of gravitational waves.