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This is a third installment in a program to develop a method for alleviating the scale disparity in binary black hole simulations with mass ratios in the intermediate astrophysical range, where simulation cost is prohibitive while purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-04 Nikolas A. Wittek , Adam Pound , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Leor Barack

It is not currently clear how important it will be to include conservative self-force (SF) corrections in the models for extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) waveforms that will be used to detect such signals in LISA (Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-30 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R Gair

Using a recently presented numerical code for calculating the Lorenz-gauge gravitational self-force (GSF), we compute the $O(m)$ conservative correction to the precession rate of the small-eccentricity orbits of a particle of mass $m$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Leor Barack , Thibault Damour , Norichika Sago

Gravitational-wave memory is a low-frequency, non-oscillatory component of the radiation field that provides a potentially powerful but as yet undetected probe of strong-field gravity. We present the first calculation of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Silvia Gasparotto , Jann Zosso , Llibert Aresté Saló , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We have studied the shadows of a Schwarzschild black hole under a special polar gravitational perturbation, which is a particular solution of Einstein equations expanded up to first order. It is shown that the black hole shadow changes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Gravitational self-force (GSF) theory is a strong-gravity perturbative approach to the relativistic two-body problem, primarily developed to model extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, where one compact object is significantly more massive than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Benjamin Leather , Alessandra Buonanno , Maarten van de Meent

In this paper, we study the periodic orbits, characterized by zoom-whirl behavior, around a Schwarzschild-like black hole (BH) embedded within a Dehnen-type dark matter (DM) halo. We demonstrate how the DM halo modifies the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 Mirzabek Alloqulov , Tursunali Xamidov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov

We consider spin-orbit ("geodetic") precession for a compact binary in strong-field gravity. Specifically, we compute $\psi$, the ratio of the accumulated spin-precession and orbital angles over one radial period, for a spinning compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-31 Sarp Akcay , David Dempsey , Sam Dolan

Extending the electromagnetic and gravitational radiations from binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges in circular orbits in Phys. Rev. D {\bf 102}, 103520 (2020), we calculate the total emission rates of energy and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-02 Lang Liu , Øyvind Christiansen , Wen-Hong Ruan , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai , Sang Pyo Kim

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

To obtain the waveform template of gravitational waves (GWs), substantial computational resources and exceedingly high precision are often required. In the previous study [JCAP 11 (2023) 070], we efficiently and accurately calculate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Changkai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In addition to the dominant oscillatory gravitational wave signals produced during binary inspirals, a non-oscillatory component arises from the nonlinear "memory" effect, sourced by the emitted gravitational radiation. The memory grows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Denis Pollney , Christian Reisswig

We investigate the potential of extreme mass-ratio inspirals to constrain quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder black holes within the framework of loop quantum gravity. We consider a stellar-mass object orbiting a supermassive Oppenheimer-Snyder…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Sen Yang , Yu-Peng Zhang , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu

Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, in which a stellar-mass object orbits a supermassive black hole, are prime sources of millihertz gravitational waves for upcoming space-based detectors. While most studies assume idealized vacuum backgrounds,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Kyriakos Destounis , Pedro G. S. Fernandes

We present a new set of 95 numerical relativity simulations of non-precessing binary black holes (BBHs). The simulations sample comprehensively both black-hole spins up to spin magnitude of 0.9, and cover mass ratios 1 to 3. The simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-17 Tony Chu , Heather Fong , Prayush Kumar , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Michael Boyle , Daniel A. Hemberger , Lawrence E. Kidder , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

The stability of Reissner-N\"ordstrom black holes with an extremal mass-charge relation was determined by calculating the propagation speed of gravitational waves on this background in an effective field theory (EFT) of gravity. New results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-12 Miguel Barroso Varela , Hugo Rauch

We perform a statistical analysis of the binary black hole problem in the post-Newtonian approximation by systematically sampling and evolving the parameter space of initial configurations for quasi-circular inspirals. Through a principal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-06 Chad R. Galley , Frank Herrmann , John Silberholz , Manuel Tiglio , Gustavo Guerberoff

We present a shifted-geodesic framework for computing gravitational-wave fluxes from spinning test bodies moving on bound orbits of Kerr black holes. The method provides a simple and efficient means of evaluating energy and angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Lisa V. Drummond , Scott A. Hughes , Viktor Skoupý , Philip Lynch , Gabriel Andres Piovano

We present a new, fast method for computing the inspiral trajectory and gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals that can incorporate all known (and future) self-force results. Using near-identity (averaging) transformations we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-30 Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

We analyze the inspiral dynamics of equal-mass precessing black-hole binaries using multi-timescale techniques. The orbit-averaged post-Newtonian evolutionary equations admit two constants of motion in the equal-mass limit, namely the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-06 Davide Gerosa , Ulrich Sperhake , Jakub Vošmera