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We calculate the evolution and gravitational-wave emission of a spinning compact object inspiraling into a substantially more massive (non-rotating) black hole. We extend our previous model for a non-spinning binary [Phys. Rev. D 93,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Niels Warburton , Thomas Osburn , Charles R. Evans

The problem of a compact binary system whose components move on circular orbits is addressed using two different approximation techniques in general relativity. The post-Newtonian (PN) approximation involves an expansion in powers of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Luc Blanchet , Steven Detweiler , Alexandre Le Tiec , Bernard F. Whiting

We study the gravitational radiation emitted by a massive point particle plunging from slightly below the innermost stable circular orbit into a Schwarzschild black hole. We consider both even- and odd-parity perturbations and describe them…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-08 Antoine Folacci , Mohamed Ould El Hadj

To model the radiative evolution of extreme mass-ratio binary inspirals (a key target of the LISA mission), the community needs efficient methods for computation of the gravitational self-force (SF) on the Kerr spacetime. Here we further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-08 Sam R. Dolan , Leor Barack

Building on recent approaches, we develop an effective field theory for the interaction of spinning particles modeling Kerr black holes within the gravitational self-force expansion. To incorporate dimensional regularization into this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-09 Dogan Akpinar , Vittorio del Duca , Riccardo Gonzo

We use the canonical Hamiltonian formalism to generalize to spinning point particles the first law of mechanics established for binary systems of non-spinning point masses moving on circular orbits [Le Tiec, Blanchet, and Whiting, Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-26 Luc Blanchet , Alessandra Buonanno , Alexandre Le Tiec

We numerically solve the inhomogeneous Zerilli-Moncrief and Regge-Wheeler equations in the time domain. We obtain the gravitational waveforms produced by a point-particle of mass $\mu$ traveling around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass M…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Karl Martel

The equations for the second-order gravitational perturbations produced by a compact-object have highly singular source terms at the point particle limit. At this limit the standard retarded solutions to these equations are ill-defined.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Rosenthal

Beginning with the pioneering work of Regge and Wheeler (Phys. Rev. 108, 1957), there have been many studies of perturbations away from the Schwarzschild spacetime background. In particular several authors (e.g. Moncrief, Ann. Phys 88,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 Jonathan E. Thompson , Hector Chen , Bernard F. Whiting

We calculate the singular field of an accelerated point particle (scalar charge, electric charge or small gravitating mass) moving on an accelerated (non-geodesic) trajectory in a generic background spacetime. Using a mode-sum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thomas M. Linz , John L. Friedman , Alan G. Wiseman

The accurate calculation of long-term phase evolution of gravitational wave (GW) forms from extreme (intermediate) mass ratio inspirals (E(I)MRIs) is an inevitable step to extract information from this system. Achieving this goal, it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-09 Soichiro Isoyama , Ryuichi Fujita , Norichika Sago , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

Reconsideration of the Regge-Wheeler equation is processed by using the Painlev\'{e} coordinate and "good" timelier to define the initial time. We find that: the Regge-Wheeler equation could has positive imaginary frequency. Because the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guihua Tian , Shikun Wang , Zhao Zheng

We present a new method designed to avoid numerical challenges that have impeded calculation of the Lorenz gauge self-force acting on a compact object inspiraling into a Kerr black hole. This type of calculation is valuable in creating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-08 Thomas Osburn , Nami Nishimura

We continue to study black holes subjected to strong sources of gravity, again paying special attention to the behaviour of geometry in the black-hole interior. After examining, in previous two papers, the deformation arising in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-21 O. Semerák , M. Basovník , P. Kotlařík

We discuss various ways in which the computation of conservative Gravitational Self Force (GSF) effects on a point mass moving in a Schwarzschild background can inform us about the basic building blocks of the Effective One-Body (EOB)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Thibault Damour

Perturbation theory of rotating black holes is described in terms of the Weyl scalars $\psi_4$ and $\psi_0$; each satisfying the Teukolsky's complex master wave equation with spin $s=\mp2$, and respectively representing outgoing and ingoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos O. Lousto

We develop the first model for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) into a rotating massive black hole driven by the gravitational self-force. Our model is based on an action angle formulation of the method of osculating geodesics for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-04 Philip Lynch , Maarten van de Meent , Niels Warburton

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the most highly anticipated sources of gravitational radiation novel to detection by millihertz space-based detectors. To accurately estimate the parameters of EMRIs and perform precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-22 Leanne Durkan , Niels Warburton

In this work, we analytically investigate the effects of the scalar self-force exerted by a massless scalar field on a particle in a slightly eccentric orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. By solving the Klein-Gordon equation in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Salvatore Capozziello , Nicola Menadeo , Davide Usseglio