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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

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 Effective One-Body formalism of the gravitational two-body problem in general relativity is reconsidered in the light of recent scattering amplitude calculations. Based on the kinematic relationship between momenta and the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Poul H. Damgaard , Pierre Vanhove

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

We formulate a new analytical method for regularizing the self-force acting on a particle of small mass $\mu$ orbiting a black hole of mass $M$, where $\mu\ll M$. At first order in $\mu$, the geometry is perturbed and the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Wataru Hikida , Sanjay Jhingan , Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Misao Sasaki , Takahiro Tanaka

We revisit the old problem of the self-force on a particle moving in a weak-field spacetime in the context of renewed interest in two-body gravitational scattering. We analytically calculate the scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-06 Samuel E. Gralla , Kunal Lobo

This paper extends the model reduction method by the operator projection to the one-dimensional special relativistic Boltzmann equation. The derivation of arbitrary order globally hyperbolic moment system is built on our careful study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Yangyu Kuang , Huazhong Tang

Geodesic scattering of a test particle off a Schwarzschild black hole can be parameterized by the speed-at-infinity $v$ and the impact parameter $b$, with a "separatrix", $b=b_c(v)$, marking the threshold between scattering and plunge. Near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-09 Oliver Long , Christopher Whittall , Leor Barack

We examine the motion in Schwarzschild spacetime of a point particle endowed with a scalar charge. The particle produces a retarded scalar field which interacts with the particle and influences its motion via the action of a self-force. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Roland Haas , Eric Poisson

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

We present a practical method for calculating the local gravitational self-force (often called ``radiation-reaction force'') for a pointlike particle orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole. This is an implementation of the method of {\it…

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

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 outline a method for calculating the self force (the "radiation reaction force") acting on a scalar particle in a strong field orbit in a Schwarzschild spacetime. In this method, the contribution to the self force associated with each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Leor Barack , Amos Ori

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for determining unknown scatterers, which is governed by the Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain. To address this, we develop a novel convex data-fitting formulation that is capable of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Sarah Eberle-Blick , Bastian Harrach , Xianchao Wang

We compute the scattering angle $\chi$ for hyperboliclike encounters in massless Scalar-Tensor (ST) theories up to third post-Newtonian (PN) order for the conservative part of the dynamics. To calculate the gauge-invariant scattering angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Tamanna Jain

[abridged] The inspiral of a stellar compact object into a massive black hole is one of the main sources of gravitational waves for the future space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We expect to be able to detect and analyze many…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 P. Canizares , C. F. Sopuerta , J. L. Jaramillo

We present a method for solving the first-order field equations in a post-Newtonian (PN) expansion. Our calculations generalize work of Bini and Damour and subsequently Kavanagh et al., to consider eccentric orbits on a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-10 Seth Hopper , Chris Kavanagh , Adrian C. Ottewill

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

Consider the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium in two dimensions. In this paper, a novel boundary integral formulation is proposed and its highly accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Heping Dong , Jun Lai , Peijun Li

Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Samuel D. Upton , Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Leor Barack