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Analytical Fluxes from Generic Schwarzschild Geodesics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-05-28 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present an analytic method for computing gravitational-wave fluxes from bound Schwarzschild geodesics with arbitrary eccentricity. Our approach systematically expands the Fourier coefficients of the emitted radiation in a Chebyshev basis, allowing them to be reduced to sums of Keplerian-like Fourier coefficients previously derived in the Quantum Spectral Method. Because the construction does not rely on a small-eccentricity expansion, it applies to a broad range of bound eccentric orbits. As an illustration, we implement the method using a 1515PN-expanded input and find that it reproduces the total flux for the case (p,e)=(12.5,0.5)(p,e)=(12.5,0.5) to relative accuracy 10510^{-5}, while for the stronger-field case (p,e)=(10,0.8)(p,e)=(10,0.8) it yields weighted mode-by-mode errors below 10610^{-6} for the selected dominant modes analyzed. These results provide an analytic route to frequency-domain flux calculations relevant to extreme-mass-ratio inspirals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.13847,
  title  = {Analytical Fluxes from Generic Schwarzschild Geodesics},
  author = {Majed Khalaf and Chris Kavanagh and Ofri Telem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13847},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Minor typos fixed

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