Note on accuracy of the post-Newtonian approximation for extreme-mass ratio inspirals: retrograde orbits

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA9AD5MaRDI QIDQ4609672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ryuichi Fujita, Norichika Sago, Hiroyuki Nakano

Publication date 23 March 2018

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09309

zbMATH Keywords

post-Newtonian approximationretrograde orbitsextreme-mass ratio inspiralsregion of validity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

Abstract: The post-Newtonian approximation is useful to discuss gravitational waveforms for binary inspirals. In this note, for retrograde circular orbits in the equatorial plane, we discuss the region of validity of the post-Newtonian approximation by using the gravitational energy flux derived numerically and analytically in the black hole perturbation approach. It is found that the edge of the allowable region behaves quite intricately, including prograde orbits even if we treat higher post-Newtonian orders.

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