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Gravitational Self-Force Regularization in the Regge-Wheeler and Easy Gauges

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-07-03 v3

Abstract

We present numerical results for the gravitational self-force and redshift invariant calculated in the Regge-Wheeler and Easy gauges for circular orbits in a Schwarzschild background, utilizing the regularization framework introduced by Pound, Merlin, and Barack. The numerical calculation is performed in the frequency domain and requires the integration of a single second-order ODE, greatly improving computation times over more traditional Lorenz gauge numerical methods. A sufficiently high-order, analytic expansion of the Detweiler-Whiting singular field is gauge-transformed to both the Regge-Wheeler and Easy gauges and used to construct tensor-harmonic mode-sum regularization parameters. We compare our results to the gravitational self-force calculated in the Lorenz gauge by explicitly gauge-transforming the Lorenz gauge self-force to the Regge-Wheeler and Easy gauges, and find that our results agree to a relative accuracy of 101510^{-15} for an orbital radius of r0=6Mr_0=6M and 101610^{-16} for an orbital radius of r0=10Mr_0=10M.

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@article{arxiv.1811.04432,
  title  = {Gravitational Self-Force Regularization in the Regge-Wheeler and Easy Gauges},
  author = {Jonathan E. Thompson and Barry Wardell and Bernard F. Whiting},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04432},
  year   = {2019}
}
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