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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

We present numerical results for the gravitational self-force and redshift invariant calculated in the Regge-Wheeler and Easy gauges for circular orbits in a Schwarzschild background, utilizing the regularization framework introduced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Jonathan E. Thompson , Barry Wardell , Bernard F. Whiting

We obtain all ``regularization parameters'' (RP) needed for calculating the gravitational and electromagnetic self forces for an arbitrary geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. These RP values are required for implementing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Leor Barack , Amos Ori

We present a numerical code for calculating the local gravitational self-force acting on a pointlike particle in a generic (bound) geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. The calculation is carried out in the Lorenz gauge: For a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Leor Barack , Norichika Sago

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

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

The numerical calculation of gravitational self-force in extreme mass ratio inspiral systems is fundamentally challenging due to the singular nature of point-particle sources. To overcome these difficulties, the effective source method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Chao Zhang , Rong-gen Cai , Guoyang Fu , Yungui Gong , Xuchen Lu , Wenting Zhou

This is the second 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 2011-10-06 Sam R. Dolan , Barry Wardell , Leor Barack

Recently, two independent calculations have been presented of finite-mass ("self-force") effects on the orbit of a point mass around a Schwarzschild black hole. While both computations are based on the standard mode-sum method, they differ…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Norichika Sago , Leor Barack , Steven Detweiler

We present a method to integrate the equations of motion that govern bound, accelerated orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime. At each instant the true worldline is assumed to lie tangent to a reference geodesic, called an osculating orbit,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam Pound , Eric Poisson

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

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

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

A compact object moving on a quasicircular orbit about a Schwarzschild black hole gradually spirals inward due to the dissipative action of its gravitational self-force. But in addition to driving the inspiral, the self-force has a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-24 Adam Pound

The equations of motion of a point particle interacting with its own field are defined in terms of a certain regularized self-field. Two of the leading methods for computing this regularized field are the mode-sum and effective-source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-28 Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell

We raise the analytical knowledge of the eccentricity-expansion of the Detweiler-Barack-Sago redshift invariant in a Schwarzschild spacetime up to the 9.5th post-Newtonian order (included) for the $e^2$ and $e^4$ contributions, and up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-18 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We present a first numerical implementation of a new scheme by Pound et al. that enables the calculation of the gravitational self-force in Kerr spacetime from a reconstructed metric-perturbation in a radiation gauge. The numerical task of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-10 Cesar Merlin , Abhay G. Shah

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

Covariant structure of the self-force of a particle in a general curved background has been made clear in the cases of scalar [Quinn], electromagnetic [DeWittBrehme], and gravitational charges [QuinnWald]. Namely, what we need is the part…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Yasushi Mino , Hiroyuki Nakano , Misao Sasaki

We derive the explicit values of all regularization parameters (RP) for a scalar particle in an arbitrary geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. These RP are required within the previously introduced mode-sum method, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Leor Barack , Amos Ori