6 papers
Intermediate mass-ratio black hole binaries: Applicability of small mass-ratio perturbation theory
Maarten van de Meent, Harald P. Pfeiffer
The dynamics of merging black hole binaries with small mass-ratios (SMR) can be expressed as a series in the symmetric mass-ratio, the post-adiabatic expansion. Using numerical rel…
Quasi-circular inspirals and plunges from non-spinning effective-one-body Hamiltonians with gravitational self-force information
Andrea Antonelli, Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno +2
The self-force program aims at accurately modeling relativistic two-body systems with a small mass ratio (SMR). In the context of the effective-one-body (EOB) framework, current re…
Analytic solutions for parallel transport along generic bound geodesics in Kerr spacetime
Maarten van de Meent
We provide analytical closed form solutions for the parallel transport along a bound geodesic in Kerr spacetime. This can be considered the lowest order approximation for the motio…
Excitation of Kerr quasinormal modes in extreme--mass-ratio inspirals
Jonathan Thornburg, Barry Wardell, Maarten van de Meent
If a small compact object orbits a black hole, it is known that it can excite the black hole's quasinormal modes (QNMs), leading to high-frequency oscillations ("wiggles") in the r…
Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap
Leor Barack, Vitor Cardoso, Samaya Nissanke +203
The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-…
Fast Self-forced Inspirals
Maarten van de Meent, Niels Warburton
We present a new, fast method for computing the inspiral trajectory and gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals that can incorporate all known (and future) self-force…