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In this, the first of two companion papers, we present a method for finding the gravitational self-force in a modified radiation gauge for a particle moving on a geodesic in a Schwarzschild or Kerr spacetime. An extension of an earlier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-23 Tobias S. Keidl , Abhay G. Shah , John L. Friedman , Dong-Hoon Kim , Larry R. Price

We present an algorithm for calculating the metric perturbations and gravitational self-force for extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) with eccentric orbits. The massive black hole is taken to be Schwarzschild and metric perturbations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Thomas Osburn , Erik Forseth , Charles Evans , Seth Hopper

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 radiated energy and angular momentum from a point mass on a hyperbolic-like orbit about a Schwarzschild black hole are computed for the first time in the framework of the first-order self-force theory. The analytical expressions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Andrea Geralico

This paper presents the first calculation of the gravitational self-force on a small compact object on an eccentric equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole to first order in the mass-ratio. That is the pointwise correction to the object's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 Maarten van de Meent

We calculate the gravitational perturbations produced by a small mass in eccentric orbit about a much more massive Schwarzschild black hole and use the numerically computed perturbations to solve for the metric. The calculations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-23 Seth Hopper , Charles R. Evans

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

We consider the self-force acting on a pointlike (electromagnetic or conformal-scalar) charge held fixed on a spacetime with a spherically-symmetric mass distribution of constant density (the Schwarzschild star). The Schwarzschild interior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Abhinove N. Seenivasan , Sam R. Dolan

We reformulate the theory of Schwarzschild black hole perturbations in terms of the metric perturbation in the Lorenz gauge. In this formulation, each tensor-harmonic mode of the perturbation is constructed algebraically from 10 scalar…

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

We present a first numerical implementation of a new scheme by Pound et al. that enables the calculation of the gravitational self-force in Kerr spacetime from a reconstructed metric-perturbation in a radiation gauge. The numerical task of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-10 Cesar Merlin , Abhay G. Shah

A scalar charged particle moving in a curved background spacetime will emit a field affecting its own motion; the resolving of this resulting motion is often referred to as the self-force problem. This also serves as a toy model for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-28 Anna Heffernan

[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 study the self-force acting on a static charged point-like particle near a Schwarzschild black hole. We obtain the point-like particle as a limit of a spacetime describing a big neutral black hole with a small charged massive object…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-24 Pavel Krtouš , Andrei Zelnikov

The gravitational waves emitted by binary systems with extreme-mass ratios carry unique astrophysical information that can only be detected by space-based detectors like eLISA. To that end, a very accurate modelling of the system is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-30 Priscilla Canizares , Carlos F. Sopuerta

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

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

Calculations of the gravitational self-force (GSF) in curved spacetime require as input the metric perturbation in a sufficiently regular gauge. A basic challenge in the program to compute the GSF for orbits around a Kerr black hole is that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-21 Adam Pound , Cesar Merlin , Leor Barack

The post-Newtonian approximation is still the most widely used approach to obtaining explicit solutions in general relativity, especially for the relativistic two-body problem with arbitrary mass ratio. Within many of its applications, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-09 Luc Blanchet , Guillaume Faye , Bernard F. Whiting

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

We investigate gravitational wave emission from periodic timelike orbits of a test particle around a loop quantum gravity-inspired Schwarzschild black hole. The spacetime is characterised by a holonomy-correction parameter that modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Fazlay Ahmed , Qiang Wu , Sushant G Ghosh , Tao Zhu