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The self field of a charged particle has a component that diverges at the particle. We use both coordinate and covariant approaches to compute an expansion of this singular field for generic geodesic orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-06 Anna Heffernan , Adrian Ottewill , Barry Wardell

We investigate the use of the Gegenbauer procedure for time-domain reconstruction in frequency-domain calculations of the self-force on a particle orbiting a black hole. The conventional technique relies on the so-called method of extended…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Christopher Whittall , Leor Barack , Oliver Long

In this article, we study numerical approximation of eigenvalue problems of the Schr\"{o}dinger operator $\displaystyle -\Delta u + \frac{c^2}{|x|^2}u$. There are three stages in our investigation: We start from a ball of any dimension, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

Prescriptions for numerical self-force calculations have traditionally been designed for frequency-domain or (1+1) time-domain codes which employ a mode decomposition to facilitate in carrying out a delicate regularization scheme. This has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Ian Vega , Peter Diener , Wolfgang Tichy , Steven Detweiler

[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 compute the linear metric perturbation to a Schwarzschild black hole generated by a spinning compact object, specialising to circular equatorial orbits with an (anti-)aligned spin vector. We derive a two-timescale expansion of the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 Josh Mathews , Adam Pound , Barry Wardell

The computation of the self-force constitutes one of the main challenges for the construction of precise theoretical waveform templates in order to detect and analyze extreme-mass-ratio inspirals with the future space-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

We propose an approach for the calculation of self-forces, energy fluxes and waveforms arising from moving point charges in curved spacetimes. As opposed to mode-sum schemes that regularize the self-force derived from the singular retarded…

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

We apply perturbation theory of boundary conditions, originally developed by A.B. Migdal and independently by S.A. Moszkowski for deformed atomic nuclei, to finding eigenfrequencies of Raman-active spheroidal modes of a spheroid from these…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 M. O. Nestoklon , L. Saviot , S. V. Goupalov

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

Accurately modeling astrophysical extreme-mass-ratio-insprials requires calculating the gravitational self-force for orbits in Kerr spacetime. The necessary calculation techniques are typically very complex and, consequently, toy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-04 Niels Warburton

Pseudospectral time domain (PSTD) methods are widely used in many branches of acoustics for the numerical solution of the wave equation, including biomedical ultrasound and seismology. The use of the Fourier collocation spectral method in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 E. S. Wise , J. Jaros , B. T. Cox , B. E. Treeby

Most self-force calculations rely, in one way or another, on representations of a particle's Detweiler- Whiting singular field. We present a simple method of calculating the singular field to high order in a local expansion in powers of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-04 Patrick Bourg , Adam Pound , Samuel D. Upton , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

An Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral (EMRI), which corresponds to a small compact object inspirals around a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy, is one of the most important sources for future space-borne gravitational-wave (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Yi-Xiang Wei , Xian-Long Zhu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

Using self-force methods, we consider the hyperbolic-type scattering of a pointlike particle carrying a scalar charge $Q$ off a Schwarzschild black hole. For given initial velocity and impact parameter, back-reaction from the scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-16 Leor Barack , Oliver Long

A numerical scheme is presented for approximating fractional order Poisson problems in two and three dimensions. The scheme is based on reformulating the original problem posed over $\Omega$ on the extruded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

We construct a pseudospectral method for the solution of time-dependent, non-linear partial differential equations on a three-dimensional spherical shell. The problem we address is the treatment of tensor fields on the sphere. As a test…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Bernd Bruegmann

We present a multi-domain spectral method to compute initial data of binary systems in General Relativity. By utilizing adapted conformal coordinates, the vacuum region exterior to the gravitational sources is divided up into two subdomains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcus Ansorg

Spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics are useful in a variety of physical situations, including light scattering, nuclear modeling, signal processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, black hole perturbation theory in four and higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Marc Casals

We develop a novel technique through spectral decompositions to study the gravitational perturbations of a black hole, without needing to decouple the linearized field equations into master equations and separate their radial and angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Pratik Wagle , Nicolas Yunes