Gravitational waveform from radial infall at the third-and-half Post-Newtonian order

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author Di Russo, Giorgio
Bini, Donato
author_facet Di Russo, Giorgio
Bini, Donato
contents We compute the gravitational waveform associated with a radially infalling particle in a Schwarzschild black hole working in the center-of-mass system and in a post-Newtonian (PN) approximation. Our results reach the highest accuracy level fully displayed in the literature, namely the 3.5PN order. The latter accuracy includes both conservative and radiation-reaction contributions (at 2.5PN and 3.5PN) in the two-body dynamics, and corresponding effects in the waveform too. The apparent simplicity of the radial fall (namely, the 1-dimensional motion) contrasts with the peculiarity of the process which will end necessarily with the capture of the particle by the black hole, featuring strong field effects. In other words, our analysis being limited to the region of validity of the PN approximation, cannot capture (by definition of PN approximation) the final phase of the fall, but offers significant insights anyway.
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spellingShingle Gravitational waveform from radial infall at the third-and-half Post-Newtonian order
Di Russo, Giorgio
Bini, Donato
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We compute the gravitational waveform associated with a radially infalling particle in a Schwarzschild black hole working in the center-of-mass system and in a post-Newtonian (PN) approximation. Our results reach the highest accuracy level fully displayed in the literature, namely the 3.5PN order. The latter accuracy includes both conservative and radiation-reaction contributions (at 2.5PN and 3.5PN) in the two-body dynamics, and corresponding effects in the waveform too. The apparent simplicity of the radial fall (namely, the 1-dimensional motion) contrasts with the peculiarity of the process which will end necessarily with the capture of the particle by the black hole, featuring strong field effects. In other words, our analysis being limited to the region of validity of the PN approximation, cannot capture (by definition of PN approximation) the final phase of the fall, but offers significant insights anyway.
title Gravitational waveform from radial infall at the third-and-half Post-Newtonian order
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08798