Gravitational radiation reaction
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
We give a short personally-biased review on the recent progress in our understanding of gravitational radiation reaction acting on a point particle orbiting a black hole. The main motivation of this study is to obtain sufficiently precise gravitational waveforms from inspiraling binary compact stars with a large mass ratio. For this purpose, various new concepts and techniques have been developed to compute the orbital evolution taking into account the gravitational self-force. Combining these ideas with a few supplementary new ideas, we try to outline a path to our goal here.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0508114,
title = {Gravitational radiation reaction},
author = {Takahiro Tanaka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0508114},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
26 pages, contribution to "The Next Chapter in Einstein's Legacy" (YKIS2005), some changes in section 5.3