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New gravitational self-force analytical results for eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-05-18 v2

Abstract

We raise the analytical knowledge of the eccentricity-expansion of the Detweiler-Barack-Sago redshift invariant in a Schwarzschild spacetime up to the 9.5th post-Newtonian order (included) for the e2e^2 and e4e^4 contributions, and up to the 4th post-Newtonian order for the higher eccentricity contributions through e20e^{20}. We convert this information into an analytical knowledge of the effective-one-body radial potentials dˉ(u)\bar d(u), ρ(u)\rho(u) and q(u)q(u) through the 9.5th post-Newtonian order. We find that our analytical results are compatible with current corresponding numerical self-force data.

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@article{arxiv.1601.02988,
  title  = {New gravitational self-force analytical results for eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole},
  author = {Donato Bini and Thibault Damour and Andrea Geralico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02988},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

21 pages; 2 figures (4 eps files); revtex macros used. Revised version including more details in Appendix B. References updated and minor typos corrected