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Considering the self force and radiation due to a small body in orbit (especially aperiodic) around a black hole, this paper defines a decomposition of the source into a sum over the shape preserving periodic motions of extended objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-02 Barak Kol

We extend the gravitational self-force methodology to identify and compute new $O(\mu)$ tidal invariants for a compact body of mass $\mu$ on a quasi-circular orbit about a black hole of mass $M \gg \mu$. In the octupolar sector we find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-24 Patrick Nolan , Chris Kavanagh , Sam R Dolan , Adrian C Ottewill , Niels Warburton , Barry Wardell

We construct the metric perturbation in Lorenz gauge for a compact body on a circular equatorial orbit of a rotating black hole (Kerr) spacetime, using a newly-developed method of separation of variables. The metric perturbation is formed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Sam R Dolan , Leanne Durkan , Chris Kavanagh , Barry Wardell

Fast, reliable orbital evolutions of compact objects around massive black holes will be needed as input for gravitational wave search algorithms in the data stream generated by the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-06 Sarp Akcay

Time-dependent spherically-symmetric perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes are studied within torsion bigravity, i.e., within generalized Einstein-Cartan theories where the dynamical torsion carries massive spin-2 excitation. We reduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Vasilisa Nikiforova

In this paper we revisit non-spherical perturbations of the Schwarzschild black hole in the context of $f(R)$ gravity. Previous studies were able to demonstrate the stability of the $f(R)$ Schwarzschild black hole against gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-04 Geraint Pratten

We present results from calculations of the orbital evolution in eccentric binaries of nonrotating black holes with extreme mass-ratios. Our inspiral model is based on the method of osculating geodesics, and is the first to incorporate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-11 Niels Warburton , Sarp Akcay , Leor Barack , Jonathan R. Gair , Norichika Sago

We produce gravitational waveforms for nonspinning compact binaries undergoing a quasicircular inspiral. Our approach is based on a two-timescale expansion of the Einstein equations in second-order self-force theory, which allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton , Jeremy Miller , Leanne Durkan , Alexandre Le Tiec

In previous works, we developed a perturbative extrapolation formula to obtain gravitational waves at infinity from binary black hole simulations, based on the Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli formalism. In practice, this formula was basically derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-21 Hiroyuki Nakano

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

Second-order self-force calculations will be critical for modelling extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, and they are now known to have high accuracy even for binaries with mass ratios $\sim 1:10$. Many of the challenges facing these calculations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Patrick Bourg , Adam Pound , Samuel D. Upton

We present a practical method for calculating the gravitational self-force, as well as the electromagnetic and scalar self forces, for a particle in a generic orbit around a Kerr black hole. In particular, we provide the values of all the…

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

We calculate the self-force acting on a charged particle on a circular geodesic orbit in the equatorial plane of a rotating black hole. We show by direct calculation that the dissipative self-force balances with the sum of the flux radiated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 T. Torres , S. R. Dolan

Motivated by gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers, we present a procedure to compute the leading order nonlinear gravitational wave interactions around a Kerr black hole. We describe the formalism used to derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Nicholas Loutrel , Justin L. Ripley , Elena Giorgi , Frans Pretorius

Recent progress in gravitational self-force theory has led to the development of a first post-adiabatic (1PA) waveform model for nonspinning, quasicircular compact binaries [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241402 (2023)]. In this paper, we extend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Josh Mathews , Barry Wardell , Adam Pound , Niels Warburton

We calculate the self force acting on a scalar particle which is falling radially into a Schwarzschild black hole. We treat the particle's self-field as a linear perturbation over the fixed Schwarzschild background. The force is calculated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Leor Barack , Lior M. Burko

We present a new, simple method for calculating the scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational self forces acting on particles in orbit around a Kerr black hole. The standard ``mode-sum regularization'' approach for self-force calculations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leor Barack , Darren A. Golbourn , Norichika Sago

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals are among the key sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna space-based gravitational-wave detector. Achieving sufficient accuracy in the gravitational-wave template for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Gabriel Andres Piovano , Christiana Pantelidou , Jake Mac Uilliam , Vojtěch Witzany

If a small "particle" of mass $\mu M$ (with $\mu \ll 1$) orbits a Schwarzschild or Kerr black hole of mass $M$, the particle is subject to an $\O(\mu)$ radiation-reaction "self-force". Here I argue that it's valuable to compute this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-21 Jonathan Thornburg

A small mass \mu in orbit about a much more massive black hole M moves along a world line that deviates from a geodesic of the black hole geometry by O(\mu/M). This deviation is said to be caused by the gravitational self-force of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Steven Detweiler