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

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/15/004MaRDI QIDQ5693099zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kostas Glampedakis

Publication date 28 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0509024

zbMATH Keywords

black holegravitational waverelativistic celestial mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In this review article I attempt to summarise 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 article'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.

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