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In this paper, we study the dynamics of scalar hair around a Schwarzchild black hole. The scalar hair is sourced by the Gauss-Bonnet invariant with a linear coupling. We work perturbatively in the coupling constant and ignore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-02 Yu-Peng Zhang , Yong-Qiang Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study the dynamics of spinning charged test particles orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a test uniform magnetic field. This setup provides a simple but physically relevant framework for modeling particle motion in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Misbah Shahzadi , Martin Kolos , Ondrej Zelenka , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We deduce a new formula for the perihelion advance of a test particle in the Schwarzschild black hole by applying a newly developed non-linear transformation within the Schwarzschild space-time. By this transformation we are able to apply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-13 H. -J. Schmidt

In a previous paper, based on the black hole perturbation approach, we formulated a new analytical method for regularizing the self-force acting on a particle of small mass $\mu$ orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$, where…

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

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 effect of self-interaction on the "geodetic" spin precession of a compact body in a strong-field orbit around a black hole. Specifically, we consider the spin precession angle $\psi$ per radian of orbital revolution for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-10 Sam R. Dolan , Niels Warburton , Abraham I. Harte , Alexandre Le Tiec , Barry Wardell , Leor Barack

We present the first analytic computation of the Detweiler-Barack-Sago gauge-invariant redshift function for a small mass in {\it eccentric} orbit around a {\it spinning} black hole. Our results give the redshift contributions that mix…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We present the geodesical completion of the Schwarzschild black hole in four dimensions which covers the entire space in (u,v) Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, including the spacetime behind the black and white hole singularities. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 Ignacio J. Araya , Itzhak Bars , Albin James

Through detection by low gravitational wave space interferometers, the capture of stars by supermassive black holes will constitute a giant step forward in the understanding of gravitation in strong field. The impact of the perturbations on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-01 A. Spallicci , S. Aoudia

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

Explicit tests are presented of the conjectured entropic origin of the gravitational force. The gravitational force on a test particle in the vicinity of the horizon of a large Schwarzschild black hole in arbitrary spacetime dimensions is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Sourav Bhattacharya , Panagiotis Charalambous , Theodore N Tomaras , Nicolaos Toumbas

It is known that a near-extremal Kerr black hole can be spun up beyond its extremal limit by capturing a test particle. Here we show that overspinning is always averted once back-reaction from the particle's own gravity is properly taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-18 Marta Colleoni , Leor Barack , Abhay G. Shah , Maarten van de Meent

Efforts are underway to accurately model extreme-mass-ratio inspirals for binaries with a spinning (Kerr) primary. At lowest order the adiabatic evolution depends on the radiation fluxes. Fluxes and other self-force quantities can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Jezreel C. Castillo , Charles R. Evans , Chris Kavanagh , Jakob Neef , Barry Wardell , Adrian Ottewill

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

In this paper, we studied the geodesics of timelike and null like particles near an improved Schwarzschild black hole. The lapse function has been plotted and was found that only one horizon is possible. The equation of motion and effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Surajit Mandal

We study the orbital evolution of a radiation-damped binary in the extreme mass ratio limit, and the resulting waveforms, to one order beyond what can be obtained using the conservation laws approach. The equations of motion are solved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Lior M. Burko

The Detweiler-Barack-Sago redshift function for particles moving along slightly eccentric equatorial orbits around a Kerr black hole is currently known up to the second order in eccentricity, second order in spin parameter, and the 8.5…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-13 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

Most self-force calculations rely, in one way or another, on representations of a particle's Detweiler- Whiting singular field. We present a simple method of calculating the singular field to high order in a local expansion in powers of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-04 Patrick Bourg , Adam Pound , Samuel D. Upton , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

In this work we present the first calculation of the gravitational self-force on generic bound geodesics in Kerr spacetime to first order in the mass-ratio. That is, the local correction to equations of motion for a compact object orbiting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Maarten van de Meent

The goal of this short note is to provide a simpler derivation of the effective potential surrounding a Schwarzschild black hole for spherically symmetric perturbations in the framework of torsion bigravity than the one presented in [V.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Philippe Spindel