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We derive the post-Newtonian dynamics for a spinning body with Corinaldesi-Papapetrou spin supplementary condition in Kerr spacetime. Both the equations of motion for the center-of-mass of body and the spin evolution are obtained. For the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Chunhua Jiang , Wenbin Lin

In general relativity, the motion of an extended test body is influenced by its proper rotation, or spin. We present a covariant and physically self-consistent Hamiltonian framework to study this motion, up to quadratic order in the body's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Paul Ramond

The secular approximation of the hierarchical three body systems has been proven to be very useful in addressing many astrophysical systems, from planets, stars to black holes. In such a system two objects are on a tight orbit, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Smadar Naoz , Gongjie Li , Macarena Zanardi , Gonzalo Carlos de Elía , Romina P. Di Sisto

We investigate the gravitational field of an extended spherically symmetric body within the framework of Extended Relativity (ER), a Lorentz-covariant formulation of relativistic gravity on a Minkowski background. Using a relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Y. Friedman , S. I. Klimovsky

The analytical and numerical solutions of the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations under the Mathisson-Pirani supplementary condition describing highly relativistic (ultrarelativistic) motions of a spinning particle in a Schwarzschild field are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Roman Plyatsko

The interaction between spin and gravitational waves causes spinning bodies to deviate from their geodesics. In this work, we obtain the analytic solution of the Mathisson--Papapetrou--Dixon equations at linear order in the spin for plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Ke Wang

General relativity considers Dixon's theory as the standard theory to deal with the motion of extended bodies in a given gravitational background. We discuss here the features of the "reaction" of an extended body to the passage of a weak…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Donato Bini , Christian Cherubini , Andrea Geralico , Antonello Ortolan

The spin-curvature coupling as captured by the so-called Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations is the leading order effect of the finite size of a rapidly rotating compact astrophysical object moving in a curved background. It is also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-01 Vojtěch Witzany , Jan Steinhoff , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We study the motion of spinning test particles in Kerr spacetime using the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations; we impose different supplementary conditions among the well known Corinaldesi-Papapetrou, Pirani and Tulczyjew's and analyze their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Donato Bini , Fernando de Felice , Andrea Geralico

We extend the finite-distance Jacobi-metric Gauss-Bonnet framework of Li \textit{et al}. [10.1103/PhysRevD.101.124058] to massive test particles carrying intrinsic spin. At pole-dipole order, the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon dynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Reggie C. Pantig , Ali Övgün

We study the dynamics of extended test bodies in flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes. It is shown that such objects can usually alter their inertial mass, spin, and center-of-mass trajectory purely through the use of internal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abraham I. Harte

In this paper, we continue our study of the motion of spinning test bodies orbiting Kerr black holes. Non-spinning test bodies follow geodesics of the spacetime in which they move. A test body's spin couples to the curvature of that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Lisa V. Drummond , Scott A. Hughes

We present a shifted-geodesic framework for computing gravitational-wave fluxes from spinning test bodies moving on bound orbits of Kerr black holes. The method provides a simple and efficient means of evaluating energy and angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Lisa V. Drummond , Scott A. Hughes , Viktor Skoupý , Philip Lynch , Gabriel Andres Piovano

An extended body orbiting a compact object undergoes tidal deformations by the background gravitational field. Tidal invariants built up with the Riemann tensor and their derivatives evaluated along the world line of the body are essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-21 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

The post-Newtonian orbital effects induced by the mass quadrupole and spin octupole moments of an isolated, oblate spheroid of constant density that is rigidly and uniformly rotating on the motion of a test particle are analytically worked…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-31 Lorenzo Iorio

We study the time-like geodesic congruences, in the space-time geometry of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence. The nature of effective potential along with the structure of the possible orbits for test particles in view…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Rashmi Uniyal , N. Chandrachani Devi , Hemwati Nandan , K. D. Purohit

The problem of a test body in the Schwarzschild geometry is investigated in a Keplerian limit. Beginning with the Schwarzschild metric, a solution to the limited case of approximately elliptical (Keplerian) motion is derived in terms of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-05 Tyler J. Lemmon , Antonio R. Mondragon

The trajectory of a spherical object which falls freely in a gravitational field is fixed by its initial position and velocity. However, an object which can control its shape can also control its motion: Except where forbidden by symmetries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-22 Abraham I. Harte , Michael T. Gaffney

The knowledge of the properties of the different exact solutions modeling binary systems, is a necessary step towards the classification of physically suitable solutions and its corresponding limits of applicability. In the present paper,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 F. L. Dubeibe , José D. Sanabria-Gómez

The Mathisson equations under the Frenkel-Mathisson supplementary condition are studied in a Schwarzschild field. The choice of solutions, which describe the motions of the proper center of mass of a spinning test particle, is discussed,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Roman Plyatsko , Oleksandr Stefanyshyn