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Main Authors: Bourg, Patrick, Leather, Benjamin, Casals, Marc, Pound, Adam, Wardell, Barry
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12634
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Table of Contents:
  • Post-adiabatic models of extreme- and intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals will require calculations of second-order gravitational self-force effects in the spacetime of a spinning, Kerr black hole. We take a step toward such calculations by implementing the recently formulated Teukolsky puncture scheme with Green-Hollands-Zimmerman metric reconstruction [CQG 39, 015019 (2022)]. This scheme eliminates the critical obstacle of gauge singularities that arise in the standard no-string metric reconstruction. Our first proof-of-principle implementation is limited to the simple case of circular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime, but the method also applies to generic orbits on a Kerr background. We conclude with a discussion of various approaches to the second-order self-force problem in Kerr.