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Jonathan E. Thompson

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arXiv2019

Gravitational Self-Force Regularization in the Regge-Wheeler and Easy Gauges

We present numerical results for the gravitational self-force and redshift invariant calculated in the Regge-Wheeler and Easy gauges for circular orbits in a Schwarzschild background, utilizing the regularization framework introduced by Pound, Merlin, and Barack. The numerical calculation is performed in the frequency domain and requires the integration of a single second-order ODE, greatly improving computation times over more traditional Lorenz gauge numerical methods. A sufficiently high-order, analytic expansion of the Detweiler-Whiting singular field is gauge-transformed to both the Regge-Wheeler and Easy gauges and used to construct tensor-harmonic mode-sum regularization parameters. We compare our results to the gravitational self-force calculated in the Lorenz gauge by explicitly gauge-transforming the Lorenz gauge self-force to the Regge-Wheeler and Easy gauges, and find that our results agree to a relative accuracy of $10^{-15}$ for an orbital radius of $r_0=6M$ and $10^{-16}$ for an orbital radius of $r_0=10M$.

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arXiv2017

Gauge Invariant Perturbations of the Schwarzschild Spacetime

Beginning with the pioneering work of Regge and Wheeler (Phys. Rev. 108, 1957), there have been many studies of perturbations away from the Schwarzschild spacetime background. In particular several authors (e.g. Moncrief, Ann. Phys 88, 1974) have investigated gauge invariant quantities of the Regge-Wheeler (RW) gauge. Steven Detweiler also investigated perturbations of Schwarzschild in his own gauge, which he denoted the "easy (EZ) gauge", and which he was in the process of adapting for use in the second-order self-force problem. We present here a compilation of some of his working results, arising from notes for which there seems to have been no manuscript in preparation. In particular, we list the gauge invariant quantities used by Detweiler, as well as explain the process by which he found them.

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