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An Efficient Method for the Evaluation of Secular Effects in the Perturbed Keplerian Motion ´ L´aszl´o A. Gergely, Zolt´an Keresztes, Bal´azs Mik´oczi Departments of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, University of Szeged, Szeged 6720, Hungary 6 0 0 2 ABSTRACT l u J Binary systems subject to generic perturbations evolve on quasiperiodic or- 9 1 bits. We derive the most generic class of perturbations, which allow to evaluate secular effects via generalized complex true and eccentric anomaly parameters, 2 v by use of the residue theorem. Such perturbations include both the generic 7 Brumberg force and various linear contributions to the conservative dynamics of 7 6 compact binaries, up to the second post-Newtonian order. As an example, we 3 compute the self-spin contribution to the luminosity due to gravitational radia- 0 6 tion of a compact binary consisting of galactic black holes, the most important 0 / type of source for LISA. This translates to simply calculate the residue of the h p instantaneous energy loss in the origin of the complex parameter plane, which o- illustrates the power of the presented method. r t s a Subject headings: compact binaries, perturbed Keplerian motion, parametriza- : v tion i X r a 1. Introduction The perturbed two-body problem is one of the central areas of interest of Celestial Mechanics. A wide class of perturbations of the dynamics of a binary system are desc