The 24th Capra meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity

Numerical simulations of extereme mass ratio inspirals face several computational challenges. We present a new approach to evolving partial differential equations occurring in black hole perturbation theory and calculations of the self-force acting on point particles orbiting supermassive black…

"In 2034 LISA is due to be launched, which will provide the opportunity to extract physics from stellar objects and systems that would not otherwise be possible, among which are EMRIs. Unlike previous sources detected at LIGO, these sources can be simulated using an accurate computation of the…

Our long-term goal is to calculate the Lorenz gauge gravitational self-force for an extreme mass-ratio binary system in Kerr spacetime. Past work in the time-domain has encountered time instabilities for the two lowest modes m=0 and m=1. In order to overcome this problem, we enter the frequency…

I will discuss the numerical methods we use to calculate the self-force on a scalar charge orbiting a Kerr black hole. We apply a 2nd-order finite difference scheme on a rectangular grid in the r*-θ plane. By working in the frequency domain and separating the ϕ variable (but not θ) we encounter…

We present EMRISur1dq1e6, a reduced-order multi-mode time-domain surrogate model of gravitational waveforms for non-spinning black hole binary systems with comparable- to extreme mass-ratio configurations. This surrogate model is trained on waveform data generated by a point-particle black hole…

Analysing the data for the upcoming LISA mission will require extreme mass ratio inpsiral (EMRI) waveforms waveforms that are not only accurate but also fast to compute and extensive in the parameter space. To this end, we present a method for rapidly calculating the inspiral trajectory of EMRIs…

Semi-analytic solutions are useful because they are much faster than full numerical evolutions by virtue of the fact that they do not have to use as many points to achieve similar levels of accuracy. Currently there exists a semi-analytic solution for spin precessing binaries, which is implemented…

The motion of a radiating point particle in the Kerr spacetime can be represented by a series of geodesics whose constants of motion change slowly over its motion. In the case of energy and axial angular momentum, there are conserved currents, defined for the field, whose fluxes at infinity and the…

We describe the transition to plunge of a point particle around the last stable orbit of Kerr at leading order in the transition-timescale expansion. Taking systematically into account all self-force effects, we prove that the transition motion is still described by the Painlevé transcendent…

We present an update on Green function methods for modelling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals. In particular, we present an accurate, efficient and robust procedure for computing the Green functions of the Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations, and show the application to the computation of self-force and…