Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Self-force and radiation reaction in general relativity

L Barack, A Pound - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers by the LIGO–Virgo
Collaboration marks the dawn of an era when general-relativistic dynamics in its most …

Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: Improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning nonprecessing binary black holes

L Pompili, A Buonanno, H Estellés, M Khalil… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown
gravitational waveform model for quasicircular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes …

Comparison of post-Minkowskian and self-force expansions: Scattering in a scalar charge toy model

L Barack, Z Bern, E Herrmann, O Long… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We compare numerical self-force results and analytical fourth-order post-Minkowskian (PM)
calculations for hyperbolic-type scattering of a pointlike particle carrying a scalar charge Q …

Adiabatic waveforms from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals: an analytical approach

S Isoyama, R Fujita, AJK Chua, H Nakano, A Pound… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Scientific analysis for the gravitational wave detector LISA will require theoretical waveforms
from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that extensively cover all possible orbital and spin …

Comparing second-order gravitational self-force, numerical relativity, and effective one body waveforms from inspiralling, quasicircular, and nonspinning black hole …

A Albertini, A Nagar, A Pound, N Warburton, B Wardell… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present the first systematic comparison between gravitational waveforms emitted by
inspiralling, quasicircular and nonspinning black hole binaries computed with three different …

Waveform modelling for the laser interferometer space antenna

N Afshordi, S Akçay, PA Seoane, A Antonelli… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will usher in a new era in gravitational-wave
astronomy. As the first anticipated space-based gravitational-wave detector, it will expand …

Eccentric self-forced inspirals into a rotating black hole

P Lynch, M van de Meent… - Classical and Quantum …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop the first model for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) into a rotating massive
black hole driven by the gravitational self-force (GSF). Our model is based on an action …

Precisely computing bound orbits of spinning bodies around black holes. I. General framework and results for nearly equatorial orbits

LV Drummond, SA Hughes - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Very large mass ratio binary black hole systems are of interest both as a clean limit of the
two-body problem in general relativity, as well as for their importance as sources of low …

Metric perturbations of Kerr spacetime in Lorenz gauge: Circular equatorial orbits

SR Dolan, L Durkan, C Kavanagh… - Classical and Quantum …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We construct the metric perturbation in Lorenz gauge for a compact body on a circular
equatorial orbit of a rotating black hole (Kerr) spacetime, using a newly-developed method …