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Presented By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

HET Seminar | Kerr Geodesics and Self-consistent match between Inspiral and Transition-to-merger

Geoffrey Compere ( Universite Libre De Bruxelles)

The two-body motion in General Relativity can be solved perturbatively in the small mass ratio expansion. Kerr geodesics describe the leading order motion.
After a short summary of the classification of polar and radial Kerr geodesic motion, I will consider the inspiral motion of a point particle around the Kerr black hole
subjected to the self-force. I will describe its quasi-circular inspiral motion in the radiation timescale expansion. I will describe in parallel the transition-to-merger motion around the last stable
circular orbit and prove that it is controlled by the Painlevé transcendental equation of the first kind. I will then prove that one can consistently match the two motions using
the method of asymptotically matched expansions.

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