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Comparing effective-one-body and Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon results for a spinning test particle on circular equatorial orbits around a Kerr black hole

2024/12/20 by Albertini, Angelica, Skoupý, Viktor, Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios +1 · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.16077

Abstract

We consider a spinning test particle around a rotating black hole and compare the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) formalism under the Tulczyjew-Dixon spin supplementary condition to the test-mass limit of the effective-one-body (EOB) Hamiltonian of [Phys. Rev. D.90, 044018(2014)], with enhanced spin-orbit sector. We focus on circular equatorial orbits: we first compare the constants of motion at their linear in secondary spin approximation and then we compute the gravitational-wave (GW) fluxes using a frequency domain Teukolsky equation solver. We find no difference between the EOB and MPD fluxes when the background spacetime is Schwarzschild, while the difference for a Kerr background is maximum for large, positive spins. Our work could be considered as a first step to improve the radiation reaction of the EOB model, in view of the needs of the next-generation of GW detectors.

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