Two-timescale adiabatic expansion of a scalar field model

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2007-12-31

arxiv.org/abs/0801.0179v1

Phys.Rev.D77:064001,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.064001

The analysis of gravitational wave data may require greater accuracy than is afforded by the adiabatic approximation to the trajectory of and field produced by a particle moving in curved spacetime. Higher accuracy is available with a two-timescale approach using as an expansion parameter the ratio of orbital time to radiation reaction time. To avoid apparent divergences at large distances, the details of the method are important, especially the choice of the foliation, the spacetime surfaces on which the orbital elements are taken to be constant. Here we apply the two-timescale approach to a simple linear model to demonstrate the details of the method. In particular we use it to show that a null foliation avoids large-distance divergences in the first-order post-adiabatic approximation, and we argue that this will be true more generally for a null foliation.

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