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gr-qc2026

Spinning charged test particle dynamics around a Schwarzschild black hole embedded in a homogeneous magnetic field

Misbah Shahzadi, Martin Kolos, Ondrej Zelenka +1

We study the dynamics of spinning charged test particles orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a test uniform magnetic field. This setup provides a simple but physically…

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Extreme mass ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by matter: Resonance crossings

Michal Stratený, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Ondřej Zelenka

The forthcoming space-based gravitational-wave observatory Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) should enable the detection of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs), in which a…

gr-qc2025★ 12 cited

Circular equatorial orbits of extended bodies with spin-induced quadrupole around a Kerr black hole: Comparing spin-supplementary conditions

Misbah Shahzadi, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Martin Kološ

The worldline of an extended body in curved spacetime can be described by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations when its centroid, i.e., its center of mass, is fixed by a spin s…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Combining Machine Learning with Recurrence Analysis for resonance detection

Ondřej Zelenka, Ondřej Kopáček, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

The width of a resonance in a nearly integrable system, i.e. in a non-integrable system where chaotic motion is still not prominent, can tell us how a perturbation parameter is dri…

gr-qc2024

Comparing effective-one-body and Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon results for a spinning test particle on circular equatorial orbits around a Kerr black hole

Angelica Albertini, Viktor Skoupý, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos +1

We consider a spinning test particle around a rotating black hole and compare the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) formalism under the Tulczyjew-Dixon spin supplementary condition…

gr-qc2024

Comparing second-order gravitational self-force and effective-one-body waveforms from inspiralling, quasi-circular black hole binaries with a non-spinning primary and a spinning secondary

Angelica Albertini, Alessandro Nagar, Josh Mathews +1

We present the first comparison of waveforms evaluated using the effective-one-body (EOB) approach and gravitational self-force (GSF) theory for inspiralling black hole binaries wi…

gr-qc2023

Can extended bodies follow geodesic trajectories?

Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Sajal Mukherjee

We provide an extension of the analysis on whether an extended test body can follow a geodesic trajectory given by Mukherjee, S., Lukes-Gerakopoulos, G. and Nayak, R. K. (2022), Ex…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Growth of orbital resonances around a black hole surrounded by matter

Michal Stratený, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

This work studies the dynamics of geodesic motion within a curved spacetime around a Schwarzschild black hole, perturbed by a gravitational field of a far axisymmetric distribution…

gr-qc2023★ 10 cited

Detectability of stochastic gravitational wave background from weakly hyperbolic encounters

Morteza Kerachian, Sajal Mukherjee, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos +1

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background generated by black hole-black hole (BH-BH) hyperbolic encounters with eccentricities close to one and compare them with…

gr-qc2023★ 48 cited

Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

LISA Consortium Waveform Working Group, Niayesh Afshordi, Sarp Akçay +144

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will exp…

gr-qc2023★ 3 cited

Extended bodies with spin induced quadrupoles on circular equatorial orbits in Kerr spacetime

Iason Timogiannis, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Theocharis A. Apostolatos

This work discusses the motion of extended test bodies as described by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations in the pole-dipole-quadrupole approximation. We focus on the c…

gr-qc2023★ 3 cited

Asymptotic gravitational-wave fluxes from a spinning test body on generic orbits around a Kerr black hole

Viktor Skoupý, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Lisa V. Drummond +1

This work provides gravitational wave energy and angular momentum asymptotic fluxes from a spinning body moving on generic orbits in a Kerr spacetime up to linear in spin approxima…

gr-qc2023★ 15 cited

Action-Angle formalism for extreme mass ratio inspirals in Kerr spacetime

Morteza Kerachian, Lukáš Polcar, Viktor Skoupý +2

We introduce an action-angle formalism for bounded geodesic motion in Kerr black hole spacetime using canonical perturbation theory. Namely, we employ a Lie series technique to pro…

gr-qc2022★ 2 cited

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission in Greece White Paper

Nikolaos Karnesis, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Georgios Pappas +18

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the mid-2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in th…

gr-qc2022★ 8 cited

Spinning test body orbiting around a Kerr black hole: Comparing Spin Supplementary Conditions for Circular Equatorial Orbits

Iason Timogiannis, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Theocharis A. Apostolatos

The worldline of a spinning test body moving in curved spacetime can be provided by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations when its centroid, i.e. its center of mass, is fi…

gr-qc2022★ 14 cited

Resonance crossing of a charged body in a magnetized Kerr background: an analogue of extreme mass ratio inspiral

Sajal Mukherjee, Ondrej Kopacek, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We investigate resonance crossings of a charged body moving around a Kerr black hole immersed in an external homogeneous magnetic field. This system can serve as an electromagnetic…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

Extreme mass ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by matter

Lukáš Polcar, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Vojtěch Witzany

Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, known as extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are one of the key targets for upcoming space-based gravitational…

gr-qc2022★ 28 cited

Adiabatic equatorial inspirals of a spinning body into a Kerr black hole

Viktor Skoupý, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

The detection of gravitational waves from Extreme mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs) by the future space-based gravitational-wave detectors demands the generation of accurate enough wave…

gr-qc2021★ 25 cited

Spinning test body orbiting around a Schwarzschild black hole: Comparing Spin Supplementary Conditions for Circular Equatorial Orbits

Iason Timogiannis, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Theocharis A. Apostolatos

The Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations describe the motion of an extended test body in general relativity. This system of equations, though, is underdetermined and has to b…

gr-qc2021★ 15 cited

Non-linear effects in EMRI dynamics and their imprints on gravitational waves

Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Vojtěch Witzany

The largest part of any gravitational-wave inspiral of a compact binary can be understood as a slow, adiabatic drift between the trajectories of a certain referential conservative…

gr-qc2021★ 49 cited

Spinning test body orbiting around a Kerr black hole: Eccentric equatorial orbits and their asymptotic gravitational-wave fluxes

Viktor Skoupý, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

We use the frequency and time domain Teukolsky formalism to calculate gravitational-wave fluxes from a spinning body on a bound eccentric equatorial orbit around a Kerr black hole.…

gr-qc2021★ 1 cited

Dynamical analysis approaches in spatially curved FRW spacetimes

M. Kerachian, G. Acquaviva, G. Lukes-Gerakopoulos

In this article, we summarize two agnostic approaches in the framework of spatially curved Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmologies discussed in detail in (Kerachian et al., 20…

gr-qc2020★ 7 cited

Dynamics of classes of barotropic fluids in spatially curved FRW spacetimes

Morteza Kerachian, Giovanni Acquaviva, Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

In this article we perform dynamical analysis of a broad class of barotropic fluids in the spatially curved Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) spacetime background without considerin…