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Time-domain evolution of Lorenz-gauge metric perturbations: taming the gauge instability
Jonathan Thornburg
Calculating the spacetime metric perturbation (MP) sourced by a small "particle" of mass (with ) moving in a Schwarzschild or Kerr "background" black hole spacetim…
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…
Scalar self-force for highly eccentric equatorial orbits in Kerr spacetime
Jonathan Thornburg, Barry Wardell
If a small "particle" of mass (with ) orbits a black hole of mass , the leading-order radiation-reaction effect is an "self-force" acting on the…
Generic effective source for scalar self-force calculations
Barry Wardell, Ian Vega, Jonathan Thornburg +1
A leading approach to the modelling of extreme mass ratio inspirals involves the treatment of the smaller mass as a point particle and the computation of a regularized self-force a…
Gravitational Waves Notes, Issue #5 : "The Capra research programme for capture of small compact objects by massive black holes"
Pau Amaro-Seoane, Bernard Schutz, Jonathan Thornburg
GW Notes was born from the need for a journal where the distinct communities involved in gravitation wave research might gather. While these three communities - astrophysics, gener…
The Capra Research Program for Modelling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Jonathan Thornburg
Suppose a small compact object (black hole or neutron star) of mass orbits a large black hole of mass . This system emits gravitational waves (GWs) that have a radiati…