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The self-force is the leading method in modelling waveforms for extreme mass ratio inspirals, a key target of ESA's future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. In modelling these systems, one approximates the smaller body as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 Anna Heffernan

Gravitational self-force theory is the leading approach for modeling gravitational wave emission from small mass-ratio compact binaries. This method perturbatively expands the metric of the binary in powers of the mass ratio. The source for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-02 Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Benjamin Leather , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Anıl Zenginoğlu

We apply our method of indirect integration, described in Part I, at fourth order, to the radial fall affected by the self-force. The Mode-Sum regularisation is performed in the Regge-Wheeler gauge using the equivalence with the harmonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-22 P. Ritter , S. Aoudia , A. Spallicci , S. Cordier

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

Computation of the renormalized stress-energy tensor is the most serious obstacle in studying the dynamical, self-consistent, semiclassical evaporation of a black hole in 4D. The difficulty arises from the delicate regularization procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Adam Levi , Amos Ori

In a previous paper, we computed expressions for the Detweiler-Whiting singular field of point scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational charges following a geodesic of the Schwarzschild spacetime. We now extend this to the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-29 Anna Heffernan , Adrian Ottewill , Barry Wardell

The growing reality of gravitational wave astronomy is giving age-old problems a new lease of life; one such problem is that of the self-force. A charged or massive particle moving in a curved background space-time produces a field that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Anna Heffernan

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-08 Leor Barack

I calculate the self-force acting on a particle with electric charge q moving on a generic geodesic around a Schwarzschild black hole. Using methods similar to those developed for the scalar field case discussed in a previous paper, I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-19 Roland Haas

State-of-the-art computations of the gravitational self-force (GSF) on massive particles in black hole spacetimes involve numerical evolution of the metric perturbation equations in the time-domain, which is computationally very costly. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-27 Sarp Akcay , Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

We compute the gravitational self-force (or ``radiation reaction'' force) acting on a particle falling radially into a Schwarzschild black hole. Our calculation is based on the ``mode-sum'' method, in which one first calculates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Barack , C. O. Lousto

We investigate the use of the Gegenbauer procedure for time-domain reconstruction in frequency-domain calculations of the self-force on a particle orbiting a black hole. The conventional technique relies on the so-called method of extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Christopher Whittall , Leor Barack , Oliver Long

We show how to compute real space renormalization group flows in lattice field theory by a self-consistent method. In each step, the integration over the fluctuation field (high frequency components of the field) is performed by a saddle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Griessl , G. Mack , G. Palma , Y. Xylander

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-27 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

A compact object moving in curved spacetime interacts with its own gravitational field. This leads to both dissipative and conservative corrections to the motion, which can be interpreted as a self-force acting on the object. The original…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Barry Wardell , Chad R. Galley , Anil Zenginoglu , Marc Casals , Sam R. Dolan , Adrian C. Ottewill

Second-order gravitational self-force theory has recently led to the breakthrough calculation of ``first post-adiabatic'' (1PA) compact-binary waveforms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241402 (2023)]. The computations underlying those waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jeremy Miller , Benjamin Leather , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton

We present a calculation of the scalar field self-force (SSF) acting on a scalar-charge particle in a strong-field orbit around a Kerr black hole. Our calculation specializes to circular and equatorial geodesic orbits. The analysis is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-30 Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

We apply the Effective Field Theory approach to General Relativity, introduced by Goldberger and Rothstein, to study point-like and string-like sources in the context of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Within this framework we compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Umberto Cannella , Riccardo Sturani

We present a numerical code for calculating the self force on a scalar charge moving in a bound (eccentric) geodesic in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole. We work in the frequency domain and make use of the method of extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 Niels Warburton , Leor Barack

Prescriptions for numerical self-force calculations have traditionally been designed for frequency-domain or (1+1) time-domain codes which employ a mode decomposition to facilitate in carrying out a delicate regularization scheme. This has…

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