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Misao Sasaki

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arXiv1996

Post-Newtonian expansion of gravitational waves from a particle in circular orbits around a rotating black hole: Up to $O(v^8)$ beyond the quadrupole formula

Extending a method developed by Sasaki in the Schwarzschild case and by Shibata, Sasaki, Tagoshi, and Tanaka in the Kerr case, we calculate the post-Newtonian expansion of the gravitational wave luminosities from a test particle in circular orbit around a rotating black hole up to $O(v^8)$ beyond the quadrupole formula. The orbit of a test particle is restricted on the equatorial plane. We find that spin dependent terms appear in each post-Newtonian order, and that at $O(v^6)$ they have a significant effect on the orbital phase evolution of coalescing compact binaries. By comparing the post-Newtonian formula of the luminosity with numerical results we find that, for $30M\lesssim r \lesssim 100M$, the spin dependent terms at $O(v^6)$ and $O(v^7)$ improve the accuracy of the post-Newtonian formula significantly, but those at $O(v^8)$ do not improve.

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arXiv1996

Gravitational waves from a spinning particle in circular orbits around a rotating black hole

Using the Teukolsky and Sasaki-Nakamura formalisms for the perterbations around a Kerr black hole, we calculate the energy flux of gravitational waves induced by a {\it spinning} particle of mass $μ$ and spin $S$ moving in circular orbits near the equatorial plain of a rotating black hole of mass $M (\gg μ)$ and spin $Ma$. The calculations are performed by using the recently developed post-Newtonian expansion technique of the Teukolsky equation. To evaluate the source terms of perturbations caused by a {\it spinning} particle, we used the equations of motion of a spinning particle derived by Papapetrou and the energy momentum tensor of a spinning particle derived by Dixon. We present the post-Newtonian formula of the gravitational wave luminosity up to the order $(v/c)^5$ beyond the quadrupole formula including the linear order of particle spin. The results obtained in this paper will be an important guideline to the post-Newtonian calculation of the inspiral of two spinning compact objects.

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arXiv1995

A General Analytic Formula for the Spectral Index of the Density Perturbations produced during Inflation

The standard calculation of the spectrum of density perturbations produced during inflation assumes that there is only one real dynamical degree of freedom during inflation. However, there is no reason to believe that this is actually the case. In this paper we derive general analytic formulae for the spectrum and spectral index of the density perturbations produced during inflation.

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arXiv1995

Self Excitation of the Tunneling Scalar Field in False Vacuum Decay

A method to determine the quantum state of a scalar field after $O(4)$-symmetric bubble nucleation has been developed recently. The method has an advantage that it concisely gives us a clear picture of the resultant quantum state. In particular, one may interpret the excitations as a particle creation phenomenon just as in the case of particle creation in curved spacetime. As an application, we investigate in detail the spectrum of quantum excitations of the tunneling field when it undergoes false vacuum decay. We consider a tunneling potential which is piece-wise quadratic, hence is simple enough to allow us an analytical treatment. We find a strong dependence of the excitation spectrum upon the shape of the potential on the true vacuum side. We then discuss features of the excitation spectrum common to general tunneling potentials not restricted to our simple model.

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arXiv1995

Large Angle CMB Anisotropy in an Open Universe in the One-Bubble Inflationary Scenario

We consider an alternative scenario of inflation which can account for a spatially open universe. It is similar to the old inflation in which the bubble nucleation occurs in the sea of false vacuum, but differs from it in that the second slow rollover inflation occurs inside a nucleated bubble. Hence our observable universe is entirely contained in one nucleated bubble. The significance of the scenario is that apart from a variance due to model parameters it gives us a definite prediction on the spectrum of the primordial density perturbations, hence is observationally testable. Here we investigate the spectrum of CMB anisotropies on large angular scales. We find that the contribution from peculiar modes which never appear in the usual harmonic analysis is significant in the case $Ω_0\lesssim0.1$.

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arXiv1994

Euclidian Vacuum Mode Functions for a Scalar Field on Open De Sitter Spacetime

Motivated by recent studies of the one-bubble inflationary universe scenario that predicts a low density, negative curvature universe, we investigate the Euclidean vacuum mode functions of a scalar field in a spatially open chart of de Sitter space which is foliated by hyperbolic time slices. When we consider the possibility of an open inflationary universe, we are faced with the problem of the initial condition for the quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field, because the inflationary era should not last too long to lose every information of the initial condition. In the one-bubble scenario in which an open universe is created in an exponentially expanding false vacuum universe triggered by quantum decay of false vacuum, it seems natural that the initial state is the de Sitter-invariant Euclidean vacuum. Here we present explicit expressions for the Euclidean vacuum mode functions in the open chart for a scalar field with arbitrary mass and curvature coupling.

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arXiv1994

Gravitational radiation from a particle in circular orbit around a black hole. V. Black-hole absorption and tail corrections

A particle of mass $μ$ moves on a circular orbit of a nonrotating black hole of mass $M$. Under the restrictions $μ/M \ll 1$ and $v \ll 1$, where $v$ is the orbital velocity, we consider the gravitational waves emitted by such a binary system. We calculate $\dot{E}$, the rate at which the gravitational waves remove energy from the system. The total energy loss is given by $\dot{E} = \dot{E}^\infty + \dot{E}^H$, where $\dot{E}^\infty$ denotes that part of the gravitational-wave energy which is carried off to infinity, while $\dot{E}^H$ denotes the part which is absorbed by the black hole. We show that the black-hole absorption is a small effect: $\dot{E}^H/\dot{E} \simeq v^8$. We also compare the wave generation formalism which derives from perturbation theory to the post-Newtonian formalism of Blanchet and Damour. Among other things we consider the corrections to the asymptotic gravitational-wave field which are due to wave-propagation (tail) effects.

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arXiv1994

Particle Spectrum Created Through Bubble Nucleation

Using the multi-dimensional wave function formalism, we investigate the quantum state of a scalar field inside a true vacuum bubble nucleated through false vacuum decay in flat spacetime. We developed a formalism which allows us a mode-by-mode analysis. To demonstrate its advantage, we describe in detail the evolution of the quantum state during the tunneling process in terms of individual mode functions and interpret the result in the language of particle creation. The spectrum of the created particles is examined based on quantum field theory in the Milne universe.

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arXiv1994

Gravitational Waves from a Particle Orbiting Around a Rotating Black Holes: Post-Newtonian Expansion

Using the Teukolsky and Sasaki-Nakamura equations for the gravitational perturbation of the Kerr spacetime, we calculate the post-Newtonian expansion of the energy and angular momentum luminosities of gravitational waves from a test particle orbiting around a rotating black hole up through ${\rm P^{5/2}N}$ order beyond the quadrupole formula. We apply a method recently developed by Sasaki to the case of a rotating black hole. We take into account a small inclination of the orbital plane to the lowest order of the Carter constant. The result to $ P^{3/2}N}$ order is in agreement with a similar calculation by Poisson as well as with the standard post-Newtonian calculation by Kidder et al. Using our result, we calculate the integrated phase of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star binary and a black hole-neutron star binary during their inspiral stage. We find that, in both cases, spin-dependent terms in the P$^2$N and P$^{5/2}$N corrections are important to construct effective template waveforms which will be used for future laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors.

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arXiv1994

Skewness of CMB Anisotropies in an Inflationary Isocurvature Baryon Model

We investigate the cosmic variance of the skewness of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies in an inflationary model which leads to the baryon isocurvature scenario for the cosmic structure formation. In this model, the baryon number fluctuations are given by a sinusoidal function of a random Gaussian field. We find that the skewness is very small in comparison with that of the fluctuations which obey Gaussian statistics.

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arXiv1994

Post-Newtonian expansion of gravitational waves from a particle in circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole

Based upon the formalism recently developed by one of us (MS), we analytically perform the post-Newtonian expansion of gravitational waves from a test particle in circular orbit of radius $r_0$ around a Schwarzschild black hole of mass $M$. We calculate gravitational wave forms and luminosity up to $v^8$ order beyond Newtonian, where $v=(M/r_0)^{1/2}$. In particular, we give the exact analytical values of the coefficients of $\ln v$ terms at $v^6$ and $v^8$ orders in the luminosity and confirm the numerical values obtained previously by the other of us (HT) and Nakamura. Our result is valid in the small mass limit of one body and gives an important guideline for the gravitational wave physics of coalescing compact binaries.

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arXiv1994

Probability Distribution of Primordial Angular Momentum and Formation of Massive Black Holes

We consider the joint probability distribution function for the mass contrast and angular momentum of over-density regions on the proto- galactic scale and investigate the formation of massive black holes at redshift $z\gsim10$. We estimate the growth rate of the angular momentum by the linear perturbation theory and the decay rate by the Compton drag and apply the Press-Schechter theory to obtain the formation rate of massive black holes, assuming the full reionization of the universe at $z=z_{ion}\gg 10$. We find the correlation between the mass contrast and angular momentum vanishes in the linear theory. However, application of the Press-Schechter theory introduces a correlation between the mass contrast and angular momentum of bound objects. Using thus obtained probability distribution, we calculate the mass fraction of black holes with $M\sim10^6-10^8M_{\odot}$ in the universe. We find that it crucially depends on the reionization epoch $z_{ion}$. Specifically, for the standard CDM power spectrum with the COBE normalization, the condition $z_{ion}\gsim 500$ must be satisfied to reproduce the observed number density of QSOs.

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arXiv1994

Post-Newtonian Expansion of the Ingoing-Wave Regge-Wheeler Function

We present a method of post-Newtonian expansion to solve the homogeneous Regge-Wheeler equation which describes gravitational waves on the Schwarzschild spacetime. The advantage of our method is that it allows a systematic iterative analysis of the solution. Then we obtain the Regge-Wheeler function which is purely ingoing at the horizon in closed analytic form, with accuracy required to determine the gravitational wave luminosity to (post)$^{4}$-Newtonian order (i.e., order $v^8$ beyond Newtonian) from a particle orbiting around a Schwarzschild black hole. Our result, valid in the small-mass limit of one body, gives an important guideline for the study of coalescing compact binaries. In particular, it provides basic formulas to analytically calculate detailed waveforms and luminosity, including the tail terms to (post)$^3$-Newtonian order, which should be reproduced in any other post-Newtonian calculations.

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