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Gravitational wave templates from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-01-14 v1

Abstract

An extreme mass ratio inspiral takes place when a compact stellar object is inspiraling into a supermassive black hole due to gravitational radiation reaction. Gravitational waves (GWs) from this system can be calculated using the Teukolsky equation (TE). In our case, we compute the asymptotic GW fluxes of a spinning body orbiting a Kerr black hole by solving numerically the TE both in time and frequency domain. Our ultimate goal is to produce GW templates for space-based detectors such as LISA.

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@article{arxiv.2101.04533,
  title  = {Gravitational wave templates from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals},
  author = {Viktor Skoupý and Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04533},
  year   = {2021}
}