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Gravitational wave astronomy is an emerging observational discipline that expands the astrophysical messengers astronomers can use to probe cosmic phenomena. The gravitational waveform from a source encodes the astrophysical properties and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-20 Steven Pakiela , Brett Bolen , Ben Holder , Monica Rizzo , Shane L. Larson

In this work, we study the gravitational waveforms from the periodic orbits of a massive particle around a dyonic ModMax black hole. We begin with a brief analysis of the spacetime and then examine how its parameters influence the dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Mirzabek Alloqulov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Tao Zhu

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

Using black hole perturbation theory, we calculate the gravitational waves produced by test particles moving on bound geodesic orbits about rotating black holes. The orbits we consider are generic - simultaneously eccentric and inclined.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Scott A. Hughes

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

The fundamental process of detecting and examining the polarization modes of gravitational waves plays a pivotal role in enhancing our grasp on the precise mechanisms behind their generation. A thorough investigation is essential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-16 Shailesh Kumar , Rishabh Kumar Singh , Abhishek Chowdhuri , Arpan Bhattacharyya

The discovery of gravitational waves and black holes has started a new era of gravitational wave astronomy that allows us to probe the underpinning features of gravity and astrophysics in extreme environments of the universe. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We study the self force acting on a scalar charge in uniform circular motion around a Schwarzschild black hole. The analysis is based on a direct calculation of the self force via mode decomposition, and on a regularization procedure based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Lior M. Burko

We study gravitational-wave emission from the quasi-circular, extreme mass ratio inspiral of compact objects of mass m0 into massive objects of mass M>>m0 whose external metric is identical to the Schwarzschild metric, except for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Paolo Pani , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Yanbei Chen , Richard Norte

We generalize to the Kerr spacetime existing self-force results on tidal invariants for particles moving along circular orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole. We obtain linear-in-mass-ratio corrections to the quadratic and cubic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

We discuss various ways in which the computation of conservative Gravitational Self Force (GSF) effects on a point mass moving in a Schwarzschild background can inform us about the basic building blocks of the Effective One-Body (EOB)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Thibault Damour

We compute the gravitational waveform associated with a radially infalling particle in a Schwarzschild black hole working in the center-of-mass system and in a post-Newtonian (PN) approximation. Our results reach the highest accuracy level…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Giorgio Di Russo , Donato Bini

We consider extreme mass ratio inspirals during which an electrically charged compact object with mass $m_p$ and the charge to mass ratio $q$ inspirals around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$. Using the Teukolsky and generalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong

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

The innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a test particle around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$ has (areal) radius $r_{\rm isco}= 6M G/c^2$. If the particle is endowed with mass $\mu(\ll M)$, it experiences a gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-30 Leor Barack , Norichika Sago

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

We engage with the challenge of calculating the waveforms of gravitational waves emitted by spinless binary black hole merger in extreme mass-ratio limit. We model the stellar-mass black hole as a test-particle, initially on a circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Ilan Strusberg , Barak Rom , Re'em Sari

Much of the success of gravitational-wave astronomy rests on perturbation theory. Historically, perturbative analysis of gravitational-wave sources has largely focused on post-Newtonian theory. However, strong-field perturbation theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Adam Pound , Barry Wardell

The field of gravitational waves is rapidly progressing due to the noticeable advancements in the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors that has enabled the detection prospects of binary black hole mergers. Extreme mass ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Mostafizur Rahman , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

We extend the work of Oppenheimer & Synder to model the gravitational collapse of a star to a black hole by including quantum mechanical effects. We first derive closed-form solutions for classical paths followed by a particle on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-14 Jayashree Balakrishna , Ruxandra Bondarescu , Christine Corbett Moran