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We review a recent theoretical progress in the so-called self-force problem of a general relativistic two-body system. Although a two-body system in Newtonian gravity is a very simple problem, some fundamental issues are involved in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasushi Mino

The self-force is the leading method in modelling waveforms for extreme mass ratio inspirals, a key target of ESA's future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. In modelling these systems, one approximates the smaller body as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 Anna Heffernan

Using recently developed efficient symbolic manipulations tools, we present a general gauge-invariant formalism to study arbitrary radiative $(l\geq 2)$ second-order perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole. In particular, we construct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 David Brizuela , Jose M. Martin-Garcia , Manuel Tiglio

We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

[Abridged] This review surveys the theory of gravitational self-force in curved spacetime and its application to the gravitational two-body problem in the extreme-mass-ratio regime. We first lay the relevant formal foundation, describing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Leor Barack , Adam Pound

The second-order gravitational self-force on a small body is an important problem for gravitational-wave astronomy of extreme mass-ratio inspirals. We give a first-principles derivation of a prescription for computing the first and second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel E. Gralla

In a modified gravity theory, the propagation equation of gravitational waves will be presented in a non-standard way. Therefore this tenor mode perturbation of time-space, as a complement to the scalar mode perturbation, provides a unique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lixin Xu

We generalize to Kerr spacetime previous gravitational self-force results on gyroscope precession along circular orbits in the Schwarzschild spacetime. In particular we present high order post- Newtonian expansions for the gauge invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico , Chris Kavanagh , Maarten van de Meent

We study the metric perturbations induced by a classical spinning particle moving along a circular orbit on a Schwarzschild background, limiting the analysis to effects which are first order in spin. The particle is assumed to move on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico , Chris Kavanagh

We present an expression for the gravitational self-force correction to the geodetic spin precession of a spinning compact object with small, but non-negligible mass in a bound, equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole. We consider only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-15 Sarp Akcay

Gravitational self-force theory is the leading approach for modeling gravitational wave emission from small mass-ratio compact binaries. This method perturbatively expands the metric of the binary in powers of the mass ratio. The source for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-02 Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Benjamin Leather , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Anıl Zenginoğlu

Corresponding to the similarity between the Lorentz gauge $\partial_\mu A^\mu=0$ in electrodynamics and $g^{\mu\nu}\Gamma^\rho_{\mu\nu}=0$ in gravity, we show that the counterpart of the radiation gauge $\partial_iA^i=0$ is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-21 Xiang-Song Chen , Ben-Chao Zhu

We present a method for solving the first-order field equations in a post-Newtonian (PN) expansion. Our calculations generalize work of Bini and Damour and subsequently Kavanagh et al., to consider eccentric orbits on a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-10 Seth Hopper , Chris Kavanagh , Adrian C. Ottewill

We investigate the linearized form of metric f(R)-gravity, assuming that f(R) is analytic about R = 0 so it may be expanded as f(R) = R + a_2 R^2/2 + ... . Gravitational radiation is modified, admitting an extra mode of oscillation, that of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-30 Christopher P. L. Berry , Jonathan R. Gair

A point particle of small mass m moves in free fall through a background vacuum spacetime metric g_ab and creates a first-order metric perturbation h^1ret_ab that diverges at the particle. Elementary expressions are known for the singular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Steven Detweiler

In this second paper of our series started with \cite{Berens2024}, we investigate linearized gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole in a non-asymptotically flat spacetime with (anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

The problem of determining the electromagnetic and gravitational ``self-force'' on a particle in a curved spacetime is investigated using an axiomatic approach. In the electromagnetic case, our key postulate is a ``comparison axiom'', which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Theodore C. Quinn , Robert M. Wald

The linear perturbation of a Kerr black hole induced by a rotating massive circular ring is discussed by using the formalism by Teukolsky, Chrzanowski, Cohen and Kegeles. In these formalism, the perturbed Weyl scalars, $\psi_0$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 Yasumichi Sano , Hideyuki Tagoshi

We compute the gravitational self-force (or ``radiation reaction'' force) acting on a particle falling radially into a Schwarzschild black hole. Our calculation is based on the ``mode-sum'' method, in which one first calculates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Barack , C. O. Lousto

We present a new method designed to avoid numerical challenges that have impeded calculation of the Lorenz gauge self-force acting on a compact object inspiraling into a Kerr black hole. This type of calculation is valuable in creating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-08 Thomas Osburn , Nami Nishimura