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Extreme mass ratio inspirals: LISA's unique probe of black hole gravity

Kostas Glampedakis

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In this paper, I attempt to summarize past and present ongoing work on the problem of the inspiral of a small body in the gravitational field of a much more massive Kerr black hole. Such extreme mass ratio systems, expected to occur in galactic nuclei, will constitute prime sources of gravitational radiation for the future LISA gravitational radiation detector. The paper's main goal is to provide a survey of basic celestial mechanics in Kerr spacetime and calculations of gravitational waveforms and backreaction on the small body's orbital motion, based on the traditional 'flux-balance' method and the Teukolsky black hole perturbation formalism.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

04.25.Nx Post-Newtonian approximation; perturbation theory; related approximations

97.60.Lf Black holes

04.30.Db Wave generation and sources

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

MSC

83C35 Gravitational waves

83C57 Black holes

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 15 (7 August 2005)

Received 6 April 2005, in final form 20 June 2005

Published 18 July 2005



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