Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole
We model the inspiral of a compact stellar-mass object into a massive nonrotating black hole including all dissipative and conservative first-order-in-the-mass-ratio effects on the orbital motion. The techniques we develop allow inspirals with initial eccentricities as high as e~0.8 and initial sepa...
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| author | Osburn, Thomas Evans, Charles R. Warburton, Niels J |
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| description | We model the inspiral of a compact stellar-mass object into a massive nonrotating black hole including all dissipative and conservative first-order-in-the-mass-ratio effects on the orbital motion. The techniques we develop allow inspirals with initial eccentricities as high as e~0.8 and initial separations as large as p~50 to be evolved through many thousands of orbits up to the onset of the plunge into the black hole. The inspiral is computed using an osculating elements scheme driven by a hybridized self-force model, which combines Lorenz-gauge self-force results with highly accurate flux data from a Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli code. The high accuracy of our hybrid self-force model allows the orbital phase of the inspirals to be tracked to within ~0.1 radians or better. The difference between self-force models and inspirals computed in the radiative approximation is quantified. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1017752022-09-28T16:32:14Z Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole Osburn, Thomas Evans, Charles R. Warburton, Niels J MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Warburton, Niels J. We model the inspiral of a compact stellar-mass object into a massive nonrotating black hole including all dissipative and conservative first-order-in-the-mass-ratio effects on the orbital motion. The techniques we develop allow inspirals with initial eccentricities as high as e~0.8 and initial separations as large as p~50 to be evolved through many thousands of orbits up to the onset of the plunge into the black hole. The inspiral is computed using an osculating elements scheme driven by a hybridized self-force model, which combines Lorenz-gauge self-force results with highly accurate flux data from a Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli code. The high accuracy of our hybrid self-force model allows the orbital phase of the inspirals to be tracked to within ~0.1 radians or better. The difference between self-force models and inspirals computed in the radiative approximation is quantified. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant PHY-1506182) Marie Curie International Outgiong Fellowship (PIOF-GA-2012-627781) 2016-03-24T15:48:28Z 2016-03-24T15:48:28Z 2016-03 2015-12 2016-03-09T23:00:18Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1550-7998 1550-2368 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101775 Osburn, Thomas, Niels Warburton, and Charles R. Evans. "Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole." Phys. Rev. D 93, 064024 (March 2016). © 2016 American Physical Society en http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.064024 Physical Review D Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. American Physical Society application/pdf American Physical Society American Physical Society |
| spellingShingle | Osburn, Thomas Evans, Charles R. Warburton, Niels J Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole |
| title | Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole |
| title_full | Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole |
| title_fullStr | Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole |
| title_full_unstemmed | Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole |
| title_short | Highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole |
| title_sort | highly eccentric inspirals into a black hole |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101775 |
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