English

Post-adiabatic self-force waveforms: slowly spinning primary and precessing secondary

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-04-28 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Recent progress in gravitational self-force theory has led to the development of a first post-adiabatic (1PA) waveform model for nonspinning, quasicircular compact binaries [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241402 (2023)]. In this paper, we extend that model to allow for a slowly spinning primary black hole and a generic, precessing spin on the secondary object, restricting to the case of small misalignment between the primary spin and the orbital angular momentum. We demonstrate excellent agreement between our waveforms and fully nonlinear numerical relativity simulations for mass ratios q5q\gtrsim 5 and primary spins χ10.1|\chi_1|\lesssim 0.1 and arbitrary secondary spin χ21\chi_2 \lesssim 1. In particular we present the re-summed 1PAT1R waveform model, which significantly improves the accuracy of the original 1PAT1 waveforms for comparable masses and increasing primary spin. Our models are publicly available in the WaSABI package.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2510.16113,
  title  = {Post-adiabatic self-force waveforms: slowly spinning primary and precessing secondary},
  author = {Josh Mathews and Barry Wardell and Adam Pound and Niels Warburton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16113},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

36 pages, 11 Figures. Published PRD

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