Comparing second-order gravitational self-force and effective one body waveforms from inspiralling, quasicircular and nonspinning black hole binaries: II. The large-mass-ratio case
Comparing second-order gravitational self-force and effective one body waveforms from inspiralling, quasicircular and nonspinning black hole binaries: II. The large-mass-ratio case
We compare recently computed waveforms from second-order gravitational self-force (GSF) theory to those generated by a new, GSF-informed, effective one body (EOB) waveform model for (spin-aligned, eccentric) inspiralling black hole binaries with large mass ratios. We focus on quasicircular, nonspinning, configurations and perform detailed GSF/EOB waveform phasing comparisons, either in the time domain or via the gauge-invariant dimensionless function Qωω2/ω˙, where ω is the gravitational wave frequency. The inclusion of high-PN test-mass terms within the EOB radiation reaction (notably, up to 22PN) is crucial to achieve an EOB/GSF phasing agreement below 1 rad up to the end of the inspiral for mass ratios up to 500. For larger mass ratios, up to 5×104, the contribution of horizon absorption becomes more and more important and needs to be accurately modeled. Our results indicate that our GSF-informed EOB waveform model is a promising tool to describe waveforms generated by either intermediate or extreme mass ratio inspirals for future gravitational wave detectors.
Albertini, Angelica
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Nagar, Alessandro
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Pound, Adam
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Warburton, Niels
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Wardell, Barry
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Durkan, Leanne
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Miller, Jeremy
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31 October 2022
Albertini, Angelica
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Nagar, Alessandro
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Pound, Adam
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Warburton, Niels
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Wardell, Barry
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Durkan, Leanne
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Miller, Jeremy
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Albertini, Angelica, Nagar, Alessandro, Pound, Adam, Warburton, Niels, Wardell, Barry, Durkan, Leanne and Miller, Jeremy
(2022)
Comparing second-order gravitational self-force and effective one body waveforms from inspiralling, quasicircular and nonspinning black hole binaries: II. The large-mass-ratio case.
Physical Review D, 106 (8), [084062].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.084062).
Abstract
We compare recently computed waveforms from second-order gravitational self-force (GSF) theory to those generated by a new, GSF-informed, effective one body (EOB) waveform model for (spin-aligned, eccentric) inspiralling black hole binaries with large mass ratios. We focus on quasicircular, nonspinning, configurations and perform detailed GSF/EOB waveform phasing comparisons, either in the time domain or via the gauge-invariant dimensionless function Qωω2/ω˙, where ω is the gravitational wave frequency. The inclusion of high-PN test-mass terms within the EOB radiation reaction (notably, up to 22PN) is crucial to achieve an EOB/GSF phasing agreement below 1 rad up to the end of the inspiral for mass ratios up to 500. For larger mass ratios, up to 5×104, the contribution of horizon absorption becomes more and more important and needs to be accurately modeled. Our results indicate that our GSF-informed EOB waveform model is a promising tool to describe waveforms generated by either intermediate or extreme mass ratio inspirals for future gravitational wave detectors.
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Accepted/In Press date: 28 September 2022
Published date: 31 October 2022
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A. A. has been supported by the fellowship Lumina Quaeruntur No. LQ100032102 of the Czech Academy of Sciences. We are grateful to S. Albanesi for discussion and technical help during the development of this work. A. P. gratefully acknowledges the support of a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. N. W. acknowledges support from a Royal Society—Science Foundation Ireland University Research Fellowship via Grants No. UF160093 and No. RGF\R1\180022. This work makes use of the Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit and Simulation Tools .
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