BN5 - Self-forces and small-mass-ratio binaries |
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Pound, Adam |
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Self-force foundations and applications: a status report |
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Gravitational self-force theory describes how a small, extended object perturbs the spacetime around it, and how it moves within that spacetime. Modeling these effects with high accuracy is essential for simulating binary inspirals with extreme mass ratios, which promise to be important sources for the planned gravitational-wave detector eLISA. Self-force theory has also proven to be an important tool for improving post-Newtonian and effective-one-body models of binary sources for ground-based detectors. In this review, I outline the foundations of self-force theory, the current status of concrete calculations at first and second perturbative orders, and the prospects for the future. |
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