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Detweiler's redshift invariant for spinning particles along circular orbits on a Schwarzschild background

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the metric perturbations induced by a classical spinning particle moving along a circular orbit on a Schwarzschild background, limiting the analysis to effects which are first order in spin. The particle is assumed to move on the equatorial plane and has its spin aligned with the zz-axis. The metric perturbations are obtained by using two different approaches, i.e., by working in two different gauges: the Regge-Wheeler gauge (using the Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli formalism) and a radiation gauge (using the Teukolsky formalism). We then compute the linear-in-spin contribution to the first-order self-force contribution to Detweiler's redshift invariant up to the 8.5 post-Newtonian order. We check that our result is the same in both gauges, as appropriate for a gauge-invariant quantity, and agrees with the currently known 3.5 post-Newtonian results.

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@article{arxiv.1801.09616,
  title  = {Detweiler's redshift invariant for spinning particles along circular orbits on a Schwarzschild background},
  author = {Donato Bini and Thibault Damour and Andrea Geralico and Chris Kavanagh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09616},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure, revtex macros used