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We study the metric perturbations induced by a classical spinning particle moving along a circular orbit on a Schwarzschild background, limiting the analysis to effects which are first order in spin. The particle is assumed to move on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico , Chris Kavanagh

The radiated energy and angular momentum from a point mass on a hyperbolic-like orbit about a Schwarzschild black hole are computed for the first time in the framework of the first-order self-force theory. The analytical expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Andrea Geralico

In this paper we study a numerical implementation for the initial boundary value formulation for the generalized conformal field equations. We propose a formulation which is well suited for the study of the long-time behaviour of perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-18 Florian Beyer , Jörg Frauendiener , Chris Stevens , Ben Whale

We develop a general perturbative analysis on vacuum spacetimes which can be constructed by generating manifolds of revolution around a curve, and apply it to the Schwarzschild metric. The following different perturbations are carried out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-25 Vee-Liem Saw

We study the self forces acting on static scalar and electric test charges in the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole. The analysis is based on a direct, local calculation of the self forces via mode decomposition, and on two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Lior M. Burko

Kerr-Schild solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations are considered from the viewpoint of integral equations. We show that, for a class of Kerr-Schild fields, the stress-energy tensor can be regarded as a total divergence in Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Doran , Anthony Lasenby

It is now possible to compute linear in mass-ratio terms in the post-Newtonian (PN) expansion for compact binaries to very high orders using black hole perturbation theory applied to various invariants. For instance, a computation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-12 Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Abhay G. Shah , Bernard F. Whiting

Numerical simulations of extereme mass ratio inspirals, the mostimportant sources for the LISA detector, face several computational challenges. We present a new approach to evolving partial differential equations occurring in black hole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Charalampos Markakis , Michael F. O'Boyle , Pablo D. Brubeck , Leor Barack

We present a formalism to study the metric perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime. The formalism is gauge invariant, and it is also covariant under two-dimensional coordinate transformations that leave the angular coordinates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Karl Martel , Eric Poisson

We analytically compute, through the eight-and-a-half post-Newtonian order and the fourth-order in spin, the gravitational self-force correction to Detweiler's gauge invariant redshift function for a small mass in circular orbit around a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-09 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

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

Standard (radiation-gauge) metric reconstruction excludes generic sources because it requires a tracefree metric perturbation. We remove this obstruction for perturbations of Petrov type D spacetimes by introducing a traceful radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-13 Dongjun Li , Nicolás Yunes

We compute the (displacement) gravitational wave memory due to a quasicircular inspiral of two black holes using a variety of perturbative techniques. Within post-Newtonian theory, we extend previous results for non-spinning binaries to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Kevin Cunningham , Chris Kavanagh , Adam Pound , David Trestini , Niels Warburton , Jakob Neef

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

We present a method for calculating the self-force (the ``radiation reaction force'') acting on a charged particle moving in a strong field orbit in black hole spacetime. In this approach, one first calculates the contribution to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Leor Barack , Amos Ori

We solve the problem of expressing the Weyl scalars $\psi $ that describe gravitational perturbations of a Kerr black hole in terms of Cauchy data. To do so we use geometrical identities (like the Gauss-Codazzi relations) as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Manuela Campanelli , Carlos O. Lousto , John Baker , Gaurav Khanna , Jorge Pullin

We study tidal effects induced by a particle moving along a slightly eccentric equatorial orbits in a Schwarzschild spacetime within the gravitational self-force framework. We compute the first order (conservative) corrections in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

Within the framework of teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR) theory, calculation of the total energy and momentum of Kerr-NUT spacetimes have been employed using two methods of the gravitational energy-momentum, which is…

General Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 G. G. L. Nashed

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

Theories of gravity extending or modifying general relativity typically allow for black hole solutions different from the Schwarzschild/Kerr geometries. Electromagnetic observations have been used to place constraints on parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-21 Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse