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gr-qc2012★ 141 cited
Gravitational self-force and the effective-one-body formalism between the innermost stable circular orbit and the light ring
Sarp Akcay, Leor Barack, Thibault Damour +1
We compute the conservative piece of the gravitational self-force (GSF) acting on a particle of mass m_1 as it moves along an (unstable) circular geodesic orbit between the innermo…
gr-qc2012★ 27 cited
Critical phenomena at the threshold of immediate merger in binary black hole systems: the extreme mass ratio case
Carsten Gundlach, Sarp Akcay, Leor Barack +1
In numerical simulations of black hole binaries, Pretorius and Khurana [Class. Quant. Grav. {\bf 24}, S83 (2007)] have observed critical behaviour at the threshold between scatteri…