Extreme mass-ratio inspiral and waveforms for a spinning body into a Kerr black hole via osculating geodesics and near-identity transformations

LV Drummond, P Lynch, AG Hanselman, DR Becker… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Understanding the orbits of spinning bodies in curved spacetime is important for modeling
binary black hole systems with small mass ratios. At zeroth order in mass ratio and ignoring …

Extreme mass ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by matter

L Polcar, G Lukes-Gerakopoulos, V Witzany - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes, known as extreme mass
ratio inspirals (EMRIs), are one of the key targets for upcoming space-based gravitational …

Resonant dynamics of extreme mass-ratio inspirals in a perturbed Kerr spacetime

Z Pan, H Yang, L Bernard, B Bonga - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the most sensitive probes of black hole
spacetimes with gravitational-wave measurements. In this work, we systematically analyze …

Action-angle formalism for extreme mass ratio inspirals in Kerr spacetime

M Kerachian, L Polcar, V Skoupý, C Efthymiopoulos… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We introduce an action-angle formalism for bounded geodesic motion in Kerr black hole
spacetime using canonical perturbation theory. Namely, we employ a Lie series technique to …

Efficient trajectory calculations for extreme mass-ratio inspirals using near-identity (averaging) transformations

P Lynch - 2022 - researchrepository.ucd.ie
Future space based gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space
Antenna (LISA) will allow for the detection of previously undetectable gravitational wave …

Fast inspirals and the treatment of orbital resonances

PA Lynch, V Witzany, M van de Meent… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), where a compact object orbits a massive black hole,
are a key source of gravitational waves for the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna …

Gyroscropes Orbiting Gargantuan Black Holes: Spinning Secondaries in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

LV Drummond - 2024 - dspace.mit.edu
Large mass ratio binary black hole systems are essential for studying the two-body problem
in general relativity and are key sources of low-frequency gravitational waves. These …