Adiabatic Evolution of Orbital Parameters in Kerr Spacetime

DOI10.1143/PTP.115.873zbMATH Open1114.83009arXivgr-qc/0511151OpenAlexW2168173874MaRDI QIDQ3418488FDOQ3418488

Wataru Hikida, Norichika Sago, Katsuhiko Ganz, Takahiro Tanaka, Hiroyuki Nakano

Publication date: 5 February 2007

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the adiabatic orbital evolution of a point particle in the Kerr spacetime due to the emission of gravitational waves. In the case that the timescale of the orbital evolution is enough smaller than the typical timescale of orbits, the evolution of orbits is characterized by the change rates of three constants of motion, the energy $E$, the azimuthal angular momentum $L$, and the Carter constant $Q$. For $E$ and $L$, we can evaluate their change rates from the fluxes of the energy and the angular momentum at infinity and on the event horizon according to the balance argument. On the other hand, for the Carter constant, we cannot use the balance argument because we do not know the conserved current associated with it. %and the corresponding conservation law. Recently, Mino proposed a new method of evaluating the averaged change rate of the Carter constant by using the radiative field. In our previous paper we developed a simplified scheme for practical evaluation of the evolution of the Carter constant based on the Mino's proposal. In this paper we describe our scheme in more detail, and derive explicit analytic formulae for the change rates of the energy, the angular momentum and the Carter constant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511151

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic equationKerr spacetimeconstant of motionsperturbation of the Kerr metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57)

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• Computational Methods for the Self-Force in Black Hole Spacetimes
• The motion of point particles in curved spacetime
• Analytic black hole perturbation approach to gravitational radiation
• Geometrical locus of massive test particle orbits in the space of physical parameters in Kerr space-time
• Hamiltonian formulation of the conservative self-force dynamics in the Kerr geometry
• The overlap of numerical relativity, perturbation theory and post-Newtonian theory in the binary black hole problem

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