Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals: LISA's unique probe of black hole gravity

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2005-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0509024v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) S605-S659

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Invited review article, 45 pages, 23 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/22/15/004

In this review article I attempt to summarise past and present-ongoing-work on the problem of the inspiral of a small body in the gravitational field of a much more massive Kerr black hole. Such extreme mass ratio systems, expected to occur in galactic nuclei, will constitute prime sources of gravitational radiation for the future LISA gravitational radiation detector. The article's main goal is to provide a survey of basic celestial mechanics in Kerr spacetime and calculations of gravitational waveforms and backreaction on the small body's orbital motion, based on the traditional `flux-balance' method and the Teukolsky black hole perturbation formalism.

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