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Coalescing black-hole binaries are expected to be the strongest sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometers as well as the space-based interferometer LISA. Recent progress in numerical relativity now makes it possible to…

Black hole binaries with small mass ratios will be important sources for the forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. Models of such binaries also serve as useful tools for understanding the dynamics of compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Devin R. Becker , Scott A. Hughes , Gaurav Khanna

We intend to develop part of the theoretical tools needed for the detection of gravitational waves coming from the capture of a compact object, 1-100 solar masses, by a Supermassive Black Hole, up to a 10 billion solar masses, located at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-11 Alessandro Spallicci , Patxi Ritter , Sylvain Jubertie , Stèphane Cordier , Sofiane Aoudia

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

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

We investigate the gravitational wave emission from extreme mass ratio inspirals, key targets for the upcoming space-based detector LISA, considering the scenario where the lighter black hole in the binary is endowed by a long-lived,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-20 Matteo Della Rocca , Georgios Antoniou , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli

This tutorial leads the reader through the details of calculating the properties of gravitational waves from orbiting binaries, such as two orbiting black holes. Using analogies with electromagnetic radiation, the tutorial presents a…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-08-15 Robert C. Hilborn

Second-order gravitational self-force theory has recently led to the breakthrough calculation of ``first post-adiabatic'' (1PA) compact-binary waveforms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241402 (2023)]. The computations underlying those waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jeremy Miller , Benjamin Leather , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton

Besides the transient effect, the passage of a gravitational wave also causes a persistent displacement in the relative position of an interferometer's test masses through the \emph{nonlinear memory effect}. This effect is generated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-29 Silvia Gasparotto , Rodrigo Vicente , Diego Blas , Alexander C. Jenkins , Enrico Barausse

The detection of gravitational waves from Extreme mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) by the future space-based gravitational-wave detectors demands the generation of accurate enough waveform templates. Since the spin of the smaller secondary body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-21 Viktor Skoupý , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

Much of the success of gravitational-wave astronomy rests on perturbation theory. Historically, perturbative analysis of gravitational-wave sources has largely focused on post-Newtonian theory. However, strong-field perturbation theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Adam Pound , Barry Wardell

We study conservative finite-mass corrections to the motion of a particle in a bound (eccentric) strong-field orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. We assume the particle's mass $\mu$ is much smaller than the black hole mass $M$, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Leor Barack , Norichika Sago

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

We revisit the problem of computing the self-force on a scalar charge moving along an eccentric geodesic orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. This work extends previous scalar self-force calculations for circular orbits, which were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-06 Ian Vega , Barry Wardell , Peter Diener , Samuel Cupp , Roland Haas

In this review article I attempt to summarise past and present-ongoing-work on the problem of the inspiral of a small body in the gravitational field of a much more massive Kerr black hole. Such extreme mass ratio systems, expected to occur…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Kostas Glampedakis

When we calculate gravitational waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by metric perturbation, it is a common strategy to use the adiabatic approximation. Under that approximation, we first calculate the linear metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yasushi Mino

We study eccentric orbits of the Schwarzschild spacetime for extreme mass ratio system (EMRI) in modified gravity theories with additional scalar fields. Due to the additional energy and angular momentum carried away by the scalar field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Bin Wang

We review a recent theoretical progress in the so-called self-force problem of a general relativistic two-body system. Although a two-body system in Newtonian gravity is a very simple problem, some fundamental issues are involved in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasushi Mino

The capture of compact stellar remnants by galactic black holes provides a unique laboratory for exploring the near horizon geometry of the Kerr spacetime, or possible departures from general relativity if the central cores prove not to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 N. J. Cornish

We extend the analytical determination of the main radial potential describing (within the effective one-body formalism) the gravitational interaction of two bodies beyond the 4th post-Newtonian approximation recently obtained by us. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour