New Numerical Methods to Evaluate Homogeneous Solutions of the Teukolsky Equation

Details New Numerical Methods to Evaluate Homogeneous Solutions of the Teukolsky Equation New Numerical Methods to Evaluate Homogeneous Solutions of the Teukolsky Equation

2004-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0410018v1

Prog.Theor.Phys. 112 (2004) 415-450

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

36 pages,7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTP.112.415

We discuss a numerical method to compute the homogeneous solutions of the Teukolsky equation which is the basic equation of the black hole perturbation method. We use the formalism developed by Mano, Suzuki and Takasugi, in which the homogeneous solutions of the radial Teukolsky equation are expressed in terms of two kinds of series of special functions, and the formulas for the asymptotic amplitudes are derived explicitly.Although the application of this method was previously limited to the analytical evaluation of the homogeneous solutions, we find that it is also useful for numerical computation. We also find that so-called "renormalized angular momentum parameter", $\nu$, can be found only in the limited region of $\omega$ for each $l,m$ if we assume $\nu$ is real (here, $\omega$ is the angular frequency, and $l$ and $m$ are degree and order of the spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics respectively). We also compute the flux of the gravitational waves induced by a compact star in a circular orbit on the equatorial plane around a rotating black hole. We find that the relative error of the energy flux is about $10^{-14}$ which is much smaller than the one obtained by usual numerical integration methods.

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