Black Hole Perturbation

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1997-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712057v1

Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.128:1-121,1997

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

120 pages ptptex file. To appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No.128 (1997) `Perturbative and Numerical Appro

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTPS.128.1

We present analytic calculations of gravitational waves from a particle orbiting a black hole. We first review the Teukolsky formalism for dealing with the gravitational perturbation of a black hole. Then we develop a systematic method to calculate higher order post-Newtonian corrections to the gravitational waves emitted by an orbiting particle. As applications of this method, we consider orbits that are nearly circular, including exactly circular ones, slightly eccentric ones and slightly inclined orbits off the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole and give the energy flux and angular momentum flux formulas at infinity with higher order post-Newtonian corrections. Using a different method that makes use of an analytic series representation of the solution of the Teukolsky equation, we also give a post-Newtonian expanded formula for the energy flux absorbed by a Kerr black hole for a circular orbit.

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