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INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON THE EFFECTIVE ONE BODY FORMALISM

Thibault DamourInstitut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, 35 route de Chartres, F-91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
2008en
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The Effective One Body (EOB) formalism is an analytical approach which aims at providing an accurate description of the motion and radiation of coalescing binary black holes. We present a brief review of the basic elements of this approach.

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