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We produce the gravitational waveforms for the extreme mass ratio inspiral systems (EMRIs) of binary stars moving around central supermassive black hole (SBH), or called B-EMRIs. We calculate the external orbits of the binary stars via the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Kun Meng , Hongsheng Zhang , Xi-Long Fan , Yuan Yong , Fei Du

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

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), i.e. binary systems comprised by a compact stellar-mass object orbiting a massive black hole, are expected to be among the primary gravitational wave (GW) sources for the forthcoming LISA mission. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Matteo Bonetti , Alberto Sesana

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

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

We study gravitational waves from a stellar-mass binary orbiting a spinning supermassive black hole, a system referred to as a binary extreme mass ratio inspiral (b-EMRI). We use Dixon's formalism to describe the stellar-mass binary as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent

The inspiral of a stellar-mass compact object into a massive ($\sim 10^{4}$-$10^{7} M_{\odot}$) black hole produces an intricate gravitational-wave signal. Due to the extreme-mass ratios involved, these systems complete $\sim…

The rate of gravitational-wave energy loss from inspiralling binary systems of compact objects of arbitrary mass is derived through second post-Newtonian (2PN) order $O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$ beyond the quadrupole approximation. The result has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Luc Blanchet , Thibault Damour , Bala R. Iyer , Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

High-accuracy gravitational-wave modeling demands going beyond linear, first-order perturbation theory. Particularly motivated by the need for second-order perturbative models of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals and black hole ringdowns, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-08 Andrew Spiers , Adam Pound , Barry Wardell

The post-Newtonian approximation is still the most widely used approach to obtaining explicit solutions in general relativity, especially for the relativistic two-body problem with arbitrary mass ratio. Within many of its applications, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-09 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Bernard F. Whiting

Scientific analysis for the gravitational-wave detector LISA will require theoretical waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that extensively cover all possible orbital and spin configurations around astrophysical Kerr black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Alvin J. K. Chua , Hiroyuki Nakano , Adam Pound , Norichika Sago

We extend the work of Yen et al. (2012) and develop 2nd order formulae to accommodate a nested grid discretization for the direct self-gravitational force calculation for infinitesimally thin gaseous disks. This approach uses a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Ronald E. Taam , David C. C. Yen

The measurement of multipole moments of astrophysical objects through gravitational wave (GW) observations provides a novel way to distinguish black holes from other astrophysical objects. This paper studies the gravitational wave radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Mostafizur Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Motivated by the search for gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes, we investigate the gravitational radiation field of point particles with spins within the framework of the multipolar-post-Newtonian wave generation formalism.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luc Blanchet , Alessandra Buonanno , Guillaume Faye

We analytically compute, through the six-and-a-half post-Newtonian order, the second-order-in-eccentricity piece of the Detweiler-Barack-Sago gauge-invariant redshift function for a small mass in eccentric orbit around a Schwarzschild black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-23 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico

We calculate how strongly one can put constraints on alternative theories of gravity such as Brans-Dicke and massive graviton theories with LISA. We consider inspiral gravitational waves from a compact binary composed of a neutron star (NS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kent Yagi , Takahiro Tanaka

The gravitational self-force has thus far been formulated in background spacetimes for which the metric is a solution to the Einstein field equations in vacuum. While this formulation is sufficient to describe the motion of a small object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Peter Zimmerman , Eric Poisson

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

Binary systems subject to generic perturbations evolve on quasiperiodic orbits. We derive the most generic class of perturbations, which allow to evaluate secular effects via generalized complex true and eccentric anomaly parameters, by use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 László Á. Gergely , Zoltán Keresztes , Balázs Mikóczi

Comparing the corrections to Kepler's law with orbital evolution under a self force, we extract the finite, already regularized part of the latter in a specific gauge. We apply this method to a quasi-circular orbit around a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lior M. Burko