Second-order gravitational self-force

Samuel E. Gralla

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.124011

Second-order gravitational self-force

Samuel E. Gralla

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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 perturbed metric and motion of a small body moving through a vacuum background spacetime. The procedure involves solving for a "regular field" with a specified (sufficiently smooth) "effective source", and may be applied in any gauge that produces a sufficiently smooth regular field.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	124011
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	85
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.124011
State	Published - Jun 4 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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