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The numerical calculation of gravitational self-force in extreme mass ratio inspiral systems is fundamentally challenging due to the singular nature of point-particle sources. To overcome these difficulties, the effective source method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Chao Zhang , Rong-gen Cai , Guoyang Fu , Yungui Gong , Xuchen Lu , Wenting Zhou

The traditional effective-source method is hampered by complex analytical expressions and the inherent smoothness limit, which incur high computational costs and complicate implementation. To overcome these limitations, we introduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Xuchen Lu , Wenting Zhou

Numerical evaluation of the self-force on a point particle is made difficult by the use of delta functions as sources. Recent methods for self-force calculations avoid delta functions altogether, using instead a finite and extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Ian Vega , Barry Wardell , Peter Diener

The equations of motion of a point particle interacting with its own field are defined in terms of a certain regularized self-field. Two of the leading methods for computing this regularized field are the mode-sum and effective-source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-28 Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-14 Barry Wardell , Niels Warburton

Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Samuel D. Upton , Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

We calculate the self-force acting on a particle with scalar charge moving on a generic geodesic around a Schwarzschild black hole. This calculation requires an accurate computation of the retarded scalar field produced by the moving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Roland Haas

A particle in the vicinity of a Schwarzschild black hole is known to trace a geodesic of the Schwarzschild background, to a first approximation. If the interaction of the particle with its own field (scalar, electromagnetic or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Eirini Messaritaki

The interaction of a charged particle with its own field results in the "self-force" on the particle, which includes but is more general than the radiation reaction force. In the vicinity of the particle in curved spacetime, one may follow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-26 Dong-Hoon Kim

The interaction of a charged particle with its own field results in the "self-force" on the particle, which includes but is more general than the radiation reaction force. In the vicinity of the particle in curved spacetime, one may follow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong-Hoon Kim

The foundations are laid for the numerical computation of the actual worldline for a particle orbiting a black hole and emitting gravitational waves. The essential practicalities of this computation are here illustrated for a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler , Eirini Messaritaki , Bernard F. Whiting

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Ian Vega , Steven Detweiler

We calculate the singular field of an accelerated point particle (scalar charge, electric charge or small gravitating mass) moving on an accelerated (non-geodesic) trajectory in a generic background spacetime. Using a mode-sum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thomas M. Linz , John L. Friedman , Alan G. Wiseman

We derive the explicit values of all regularization parameters (RP) for a scalar particle in an arbitrary geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. These RP are required within the previously introduced mode-sum method, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Leor Barack , Amos Ori

We revisit the problem of computing the self-force on a scalar charge moving along an eccentric geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. This work extends previous scalar self-force calculations for circular orbits, which were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-06 Ian Vega , Barry Wardell , Peter Diener , Samuel Cupp , Roland Haas

Accurately modeling astrophysical extreme-mass-ratio-insprials requires calculating the gravitational self-force for orbits in Kerr spacetime. The necessary calculation techniques are typically very complex and, consequently, toy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-04 Niels Warburton

We present a practical method for calculating the local gravitational self-force (often called ``radiation-reaction force'') for a pointlike particle orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole. This is an implementation of the method of {\it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Leor Barack , Yasushi Mino , Hiroyuki Nakano , Amos Ori , Misao Sasaki

We formulate a new analytical method for regularizing the self-force acting on a particle of small mass $\mu$ orbiting a black hole of mass $M$, where $\mu\ll M$. At first order in $\mu$, the geometry is perturbed and the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Wataru Hikida , Sanjay Jhingan , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

Considering the self force and radiation due to a small body in orbit (especially aperiodic) around a black hole, this paper defines a decomposition of the source into a sum over the shape preserving periodic motions of extended objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-02 Barak Kol

We present a practical method for calculating the gravitational self-force, as well as the electromagnetic and scalar self forces, for a particle in a generic orbit around a Kerr black hole. In particular, we provide the values of all the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Leor Barack , Amos Ori
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