Kostas Glampedakis 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S605 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/22/15/004
Kostas Glampedakis
Show affiliationsIn 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.
04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments
04.25.Nx Post-Newtonian approximation; perturbation theory; related approximations
Issue 15 (7 August 2005)
Received 6 April 2005, in final form 20 June 2005
Published 18 July 2005
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