Pragmatic approach to gravitational radiation reaction in binary black holes

Details Pragmatic approach to gravitational radiation reaction in binary black holes Pragmatic approach to gravitational radiation reaction in binary black holes

1999-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9912017v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 84 (2000) 5251-5254

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

5 pages, 2 figures, improved text and figures. To appear in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5251

We study the relativistic orbit of binary black holes in systems with small mass ratio. The trajectory of the smaller object (another black hole or a neutron star), represented as a particle, is determined by the geodesic equation on the perturbed massive black hole spacetime. The particle itself generates the gravitational perturbations leading to a problem that needs regularization. Here we study perturbations around a Schwarzschild black hole using Moncrief's gauge invariant formalism. We decompose the perturbations into $\ell-$multipoles to show that all $\ell-$metric coefficients are $C^0$ at the location of the particle. Summing over $\ell$, to reconstruct the full metric, gives a formally divergent result. We succeed in bringing this sum to a generalized Riemann's $\zeta-$function regularization scheme and show that this is tantamount to subtract the $\ell\to\infty$ piece to each multipole. We explicitly carry out this regularization and numerically compute the first order geodesics. Application of this method to general orbits around rotating black holes would generate accurate templates for gravitational wave laser interferometric detectors.

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