New Horizons for Psi: Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Fundamental Fields
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2024-12-13 v1
Abstract
This set of notes guided a 2 hour lecture on "Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Fundamental Fields for the New Horizons for Psi School and Workshop", hosted at Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, between 1 - 5 July 2024. It introduces how to model asymmetric mass-ratio binaries evolving while immersed in an environment constituted by an ultralight (complex) scalar field using techniques of black hole perturbation theory, and focusing on the simpler example of a spherically symmetric cloud around a non-rotating black hole. A Mathematica notebook with the derivation and solver of the equations of motion of the system is also provided.
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@article{arxiv.2412.08711,
title = {New Horizons for Psi: Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Fundamental Fields},
author = {Francisco Duque},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08711},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
20 pages, 3 figures, Mathematica notebook in https://github.com/FranciscoDuque/EMRIBosons