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Spin-orbit precession along eccentric orbits for extreme mass ratio black hole binaries and its effective-one-body transcription

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-09-20 v1

Abstract

In this work we present an analytical gravitational self-force calculation of the spin-orbit precession along an eccentric orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole, following closely the recent prescription of Akcay, Dempsey, and Dolan. We then transcribe this quantity within the Effective-One-Body (EOB) formalism, thereby determining several new, linear-in-mass-ratio, contributions in the post-Newtonian expansion of the spin-orbit couplings entering the EOB Hamiltonian. Namely, we determine the second gyro-gravitomagnetic ratio gS(r,pr,pϕ)g_{S_*}(r,p_r,p_{\phi}) up to order pr2/r4p_r^2/r^4 included.

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@article{arxiv.1706.00459,
  title  = {Spin-orbit precession along eccentric orbits for extreme mass ratio black hole binaries and its effective-one-body transcription},
  author = {Chris Kavanagh and Donato Bini and Thibault Damour and Seth Hopper and Adrian C. Ottewill and Barry Wardell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00459},
  year   = {2017}
}