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[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…
At the beginning of binary black hole simulations, there is a pulse of spurious radiation (or junk radiation) resulting from the initial data not matching astrophysical quasi-equilibrium inspiral exactly. One traditionally waits for the…
A new method is proposed for fitting non-relativistic binary-scattering data and for extracting the parameters of possible quantum resonances in the compound system that is formed during the collision. The method combines the well-known…
In this paper, we consider two linear inverse problems for the time-fractional wave equation, assuming that its right-hand side takes the separable form $f(t)h(x)$, where $t \geq 0$ and $x \in \Omega \subset R^N $. The objective is to…
With a view to developing a formalism that will be applicable at second perturbative order, we devise a new practical scheme for computing the gravitational self-force experienced by a point mass moving in a curved background spacetime. Our…
New physics and systematic errors can lead to deviations between the models used to analyze gravitational wave data and the actual signal. Such deviations will generally be correlated between detectors and manifest differently across the…
We propose an approach for the calculation of self-forces, energy fluxes and waveforms arising from moving point charges in curved spacetimes. As opposed to mode-sum schemes that regularize the self-force derived from the singular retarded…
We calculate the self-force experienced by a point scalar charge, a point electric charge, and a point mass moving in a weakly curved spacetime characterized by a time-independent Newtonian potential. The self-forces are calculated by first…
We consider the gradient flow of a quadratic non-autonomous energy under monotonicity constraint in time and natural regularity assumptions. We provide first a notion of weak solution, inspired by the theory of curves of maximal slope, and…
Exact dynamical equations for a generic dust matter source field in a cosmological context are formulated with respect to a non-comoving Newtonian-like timelike reference congruence and investigated for internal consistency. On the basis of…
We develop a frequency-domain method for calculating the self-force acting on a scalar charge on a fixed scattering geodesic in Schwarzschild spacetime. Existing frequency-domain methods, which are tailored for bound orbits, are inadequate…
We introduce a new time-domain method for computing the self-force acting on a scalar particle in a Schwarzschild geometry. The principal feature of our method consists in the division of the spatial domain into several subdomains and…
We consider equations of modified gravity involving critical accelerations and find its solutions for the point-like source by suggesting the appropriate symmetry of metrics in the empty space-time.
We consider the wave equation $(\p_t^2-\Delta_g)u(t,x)=f(t,x)$, in $\R^n$, $u|_{\R_-\times \R^n}=0$, where the metric $g=(g_{jk}(x))_{j,k=1}^n$ is known outside an open and bounded set $M\subset \R^n$ with smooth boundary $\p M$. We define…
It has been suggested that single and double jets observed emanating from certain astrophysical objects may have a purely gravitational origin. We discuss new classes of pulsed gravitational wave solutions to the equation for perturbations…
A population of compact object binaries emitting gravitational waves that are not individually resolvable will form a stochastic gravitational wave signal. While the expected spectrum over population realizations is well known from Phinney…
It is known that the Jost-function formulation of quantum scattering theory can be applied to classical problems concerned with the scattering of a plane scalar wave by a medium with a spherically symmetric inhomogeneity of finite extent.…
The analytic properties of the Jost functions are fundamental in quantum scattering theory and in the analytic continuation of the scattering matrix into the complex energy plane. In this work, the analyticity of the Jost functions is…
This review is concerned with the gravitational self-force acting on a mass particle in orbit around a large black hole. Renewed interest in this old problem is driven by the prospects of detecting gravitational waves from strongly…
To address the ill-posedness of the inverse source problem for the one-dimensional stochastic Helmholtz equations without attenuation, this study develops a novel computational framework designed to mitigate this inherent challenge at the…