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This is the second of two companion papers on computing the self-force in a radiation gauge; more precisely, the method uses a radiation gauge for the radiative part of the metric perturbation, together with an arbitrarily chosen gauge for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-22 Abhay Shah , Tobias Keidl , John Friedman , Dong-Hoon Kim , Larry Price

We discuss a practical method to compute the self-force on a particle moving through a curved spacetime. This method involves two expansions to calculate the self-force, one arising from the particle's immediate past and the other from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Warren G. Anderson , Alan G. Wiseman

We study the self force acting on a scalar charge in uniform circular motion around a Schwarzschild black hole. The analysis is based on a direct calculation of the self force via mode decomposition, and on a regularization procedure based…

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

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), consisting of a stellar-mass black hole orbiting a supermassive black hole, are among the primary targets for future space-based gravitational wave detectors. By analyzing the emitted gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Li Huang

We derive an expression for the second-order gravitational self-force that acts on a self-gravitating compact-object moving in a curved background spacetime. First we develop a new method of derivation and apply it to the derivation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eran Rosenthal

We calculate analytical gravitational waveforms in the time- and frequency-domain for precessing quasi-circular binaries with spins of arbitrary magnitude, but nearly aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We first derive an analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-03 Antoine Klein , Neil Cornish , Nicolás Yunes

The coalescence of compact objects is one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometric detectors, such as advanced LIGO and Virgo. Generically, com- pact objects in binaries are expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-16 Katerina Chatziioannou , Antoine Klein , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

In this paper we present a spectral decomposition of solutions to relativistic wave equations described on horizon penetrating hyperboloidal slices within a given Schwarzschild-black-hole background. The wave equa- tion in question is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-28 Marcus Ansorg , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

The spin-weighted spheroidal equations in the case s=1/2 is thoroughly studied in the paper by means of the perturbation method in supersymmetry quantum mechanics. The first-five terms of the super-potential in the series of the parameter…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-12 Kun Dong , Guihua Tian , Yue Sun

This is the second 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 2011-10-06 Sam R. Dolan , Barry Wardell , Leor Barack

We consider gravitational radiation in the presence of non-compact extra dimensions. If their number is odd, all spacetime becomes odd-dimensional and formation of gravitational radiation becomes non-trivial because of violation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-24 D. V. Gal'tsov , M. Khlopunov

In [7] Klainerman introduced the hyperboloidal method to prove the global existence results for nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations by using commuting vector fields. In this paper, we extend the hyperboloidal method from Minkowski space to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Qian Wang

Merging supermassive black hole binaries produce low-frequency gravitational waves, which pulsar timing experiments are searching for. Much of the current theory is developed within the plane-wave formalism, and here we develop the more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-29 Casey McGrath , Jolien Creighton

Accurate gravity field calculations are necessary for landing on planets, moons, asteroids, minimoons, or other irregularly shaped bodies, but current methods become increasingly inaccurate and slow near the surface. We present high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Thomas MacLean , Alan H. Barr

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

Self-gravitational force calculation for infinitesimally thin disks is important for studies on the evolution of galactic and protoplanetary disks. Although high-order methods have been developed for hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hsiang-Hsu Wang , Ming-Cheng Shiue , Rui-Zhu Wu , Chien-Chang Yen

In this work I use a frequency-domain Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli approach to compute the gravitational wave energy radiated by a compact body moving along a hyperbolic or parabolic geodesic of a Schwarzschild black hole. I compare my results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Niels Warburton

The possibility of forming gravitational-wave sources with high center-of-mass (c.m.) velocities in the vicinity of supermassive black holes requires us to develop a method of deriving the waveform in the observer's frame. Here we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

The self-force is the leading method in modelling waveforms for extreme mass ratio inspirals, a key target of ESA's future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. In modelling these systems, one approximates the smaller body as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-13 Anna Heffernan

The second-order gravitational self-force on a small body is an important problem for gravitational-wave astronomy of extreme mass-ratio inspirals. We give a first-principles derivation of a prescription for computing the first and second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel E. Gralla