Analytical Fluxes from Generic Schwarzschild Geodesics
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 PN-expanded input and find that it reproduces the total flux for the case to relative accuracy , while for the stronger-field case it yields weighted mode-by-mode errors below 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}
}
Comments
Minor typos fixed