TAPIR Seminar

Hybrid -- To Join via Zoom

https://caltech.zoom.us/j/89695722750

In this talk I will give a brief overview of the perturbative self-force approach to the relativistic two-body problem and the current effort to produce gravitational waveform templates for extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). I will specialise the discussion to the effect of the spin of the 'secondary' body on EMRI waveforms, including preliminary work on precessing spin configurations.  Beginning with simplified EMRI configurations, I will outline a practical first-principles approach to producing self-force waveforms and finish with some qualitative comparisons of subleading 'post-adiabatic' order waveforms with numerical relativity counterparts.