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Computation of the renormalized stress-energy tensor is the most serious obstacle in studying the dynamical, self-consistent, semiclassical evaporation of a black hole in 4D. The difficulty arises from the delicate regularization procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Adam Levi , Amos Ori

The implementation of the orbital minimization method (OMM) for solving the self-consistent Kohn-Sham (KS) problem for electronic structure calculations in a basis of non-orthogonal numerical atomic orbitals of finite-range is reported. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Fabiano Corsetti

We compute the conservative piece of the gravitational self-force (GSF) acting on a particle of mass m_1 as it moves along an (unstable) circular geodesic orbit between the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) and the light ring of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Sarp Akcay , Leor Barack , Thibault Damour , Norichika Sago

We present an analytic method based on the Hadamard-WKB expansion to calculate the self-force for a particle with scalar charge that undergoes radial infall in a Schwarzschild spacetime after being held at rest until a time t = 0. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul R. Anderson , Ardeshir Eftekharzadeh , B. L. Hu

We present a method to study the semiclassical gravitational collapse of a radially symmetric scalar quantum field in a coherent initial state. The formalism utilizes a Fock space basis in the initial metric, is unitary and time reversal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-17 Jana N. Guenther , Christian Hoelbling , Lukas Varnhorst

When a stellar-mass compact object is captured by a supermassive black hole located in a galactic centre, the system losses energy and angular momentum by the emission of gravitational waves. Subsequently, the stellar compact object evolves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-28 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We reformulate the theory of Schwarzschild black hole perturbations in terms of the metric perturbation in the Lorenz gauge. In this formulation, each tensor-harmonic mode of the perturbation is constructed algebraically from 10 scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Leor Barack , Carlos O. Lousto

The motion of a charged particle is influenced by the self-force arising from the particle's interaction with its own field. In a curved spacetime, this self-force depends on the entire past history of the particle and is difficult to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-28 Peter Diener , Ian Vega , Barry Wardell , Steven Detweiler

We consider the self-force on a charged particle moving in a curved spacetime with a background electromagnetic field, extending previous studies to situations in which gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations are comparable. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-22 Thomas M. Linz , John L. Friedman , Alan G. Wiseman

Accurate modeling of \gls{EMRIs} is essential for extracting reliable information from future space-based gravitational wave observatories. Fast waveform generation frameworks adopt an offline/online architecture, where expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Hassan Khalvati , Philip Lynch , Ollie Burke , Lorenzo Speri , Maarten van de Meent , Zachary Nasipak

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

We calculate the unregularized monopole and dipole contributions to the self-force acting on a particle of small mass in a circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. From a self-force point of view, these non-radiating modes are as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steve Detweiler , Eric Poisson

Motivated by applications to the study of self-force effects in scalar-tensor theories of gravity, we calculate the self-force exerted on a scalar charge in a circular orbit about a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole. We obtain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-18 Jezreel Castillo , Ian Vega , Barry Wardell

The gravitational self-force on a point particle moving in a vacuum background spacetime can be expressed as an integral over the past worldline of the particle, the so-called tail term. In this paper, we consider that piece of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Warren G. Anderson , Eanna E. Flanagan , Adrian C. Ottewill

In this paper, we introduce a class of spacetimes $\left(\mathcal{M},g\right)$ which satisfy the vacuum Einstein equations and dynamically approach a Schwarzschild solution of mass $M$, a class we shall call \emph{ultimately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-18 Gustav Holzegel

We investigate the optical and radiative signatures of an accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in a uniform magnetic field. The spacetime geometry is described by the Schwarzschild-Bertotti-Robinson (SBR) metric,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Javokhir Sharipov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjar Shaymatov

We extend the gravitational self-force methodology to identify and compute new $O(\mu)$ tidal invariants for a compact body of mass $\mu$ on a quasi-circular orbit about a black hole of mass $M \gg \mu$. In the octupolar sector we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-24 Patrick Nolan , Chris Kavanagh , Sam R Dolan , Adrian C Ottewill , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell

We develop a waveform model to describe the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary systems with comparable and intermediate mass-ratios. This model incorporates first-order conservative self-force corrections to the energy and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-11 E. A. Huerta , Prayush Kumar , Jonathan R. Gair , Sean T. McWilliams

Self-gravitational force calculation for infinitesimally thin disks is important for studies on the evolution of galactic and protoplanetary disks. Although high-order methods have been developed for hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Ming-Cheng Shiue , Rui-Zhu Wu , Chien-Chang Yen

Using the Wald formalism, we investigate the thermodynamics of charged black holes in D-dimensional stationary spacetimes with or without rotations in Einstein-\ae ther-Maxwell theory. In particular, assuming the existence of a scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-29 Fei-hung Ho , Shao-Jun Zhang , Hai-Shan Liu , Anzhong Wang