15th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity

Scalar self-force for eccentric orbits in Kerr spacetime (collaboration between JT and Barry Wardell)

Jonathan Thornburg

Indiana University
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The effective-source method (first proposed by Barack & Golbourn and Vega & Detweiler in 2007) provides a general method for computing radiation-reaction effects in Kerr spacetime. This method is of particular interest because of its ability to handle almost arbitrary orbits. Here I discuss the practical implementation this method, focusing on the techniques needed for efficient computations for highly eccentric orbits.