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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

Accurately modeling an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral requires knowledge of the second-order gravitational self-force on the inspiraling small object. Recently, numerical puncture schemes have been formulated to calculate this force, and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-21 Adam Pound , Jeremy Miller

This paper presents the first calculation of the gravitational self-force on a small compact object on an eccentric equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole to first order in the mass-ratio. That is the pointwise correction to the object's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Maarten van de Meent

This is the third in a series of papers aimed at developing a practical time-domain method for self-force calculations in Kerr spacetime. The key elements of the method are (i) removal of a singular part of the perturbation field with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-13 Sam R. Dolan , Leor Barack

We employ scattering amplitudes in curved space to model the dynamics of a light probe particle with mass $m$ orbiting in the background spacetime induced by a heavy gravitational source with mass $M$. Observables are organized as an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Mikhail P. Solon

A difficulty with previous treatments of the gravitational self-force is that an explicit formula for the force is available only in a particular gauge (Lorenz gauge), where the force in other gauges must be found through a transformation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Samuel E. Gralla

We consider the self-force acting on a pointlike (electromagnetic or conformal-scalar) charge held fixed on a spacetime with a spherically-symmetric mass distribution of constant density (the Schwarzschild star). The Schwarzschild interior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Abhinove N. Seenivasan , Sam R. Dolan

Gravitational self-force theory is the primary way of modelling extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). One difficulty that appears in second-order self-force calculations is the strong divergence at the worldline of the small object, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-15 Samuel D. Upton

Synergies between self-force theory and other approaches to the gravitational two-body problem have traditionally relied on calculations of gauge-invariant observables as functions of orbital frequencies. However, in self-force theory one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 David Trestini , Zachary Nasipak , Adam Pound

We provide expansions of the Detweiler-Whiting singular field for motion along arbitrary, planar accelerated trajectories in Schwarzschild spacetime. We transcribe these results into mode-sum regularization parameters, computing previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Anna Heffernan , Adrian C. Ottewill , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell , Peter Diener

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

We discuss a practical method to compute the self-force on a particle moving through a curved spacetime. This method involves two expansions to calculate the self-force, one arising from the particle's immediate past and the other from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Warren G. Anderson , Alan G. Wiseman

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

The satellite observatory LISA will be capable of detecting gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), such as a small black hole orbiting a supermassive black hole. The gravitational effects of the much smaller mass can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-02 Mark V. Berndtson

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

In this paper, we calculate the frequencies of geodesic orbits in self-dual spacetime on the equatorial plane and obtain the leading-order effects of loop quantum parameters $P$ on the energy flux and angular momentum flux in eccentric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Yunlong Liu , Xiangdong Zhang

Building on substantial foundational progress in understanding the effect of a small body's self-field on its own motion, the past 15 years has seen the emergence of several strategies for explicitly computing self-field corrections to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Barry Wardell

Gravitational waveforms and fluxes from extreme mass--ratio inspirals can be computed using time--domain methods with accuracy that is fast approaching that of frequency--domain methods. We study in detail the computational efficiency of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Jonathan L. Barton , David J. Lazar , Daniel J. Kennefick , Gaurav Khanna , Lior M. Burko

The accuracy of time-domain solutions of the inhomogeneous Teukolsky equation is improved significantly. Comparing energy fluxes in gravitational waves with highly accurate frequency-domain results for circular equatorial orbits in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna

We derive a formalism for solving the Lorenz gauge equations for metric perturbations of Kerr spacetime sourced by an arbitrary stress-energy tensor. The metric perturbation is obtained as a sum of differential operators acting on a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Barry Wardell , Chris Kavanagh , Sam R. Dolan