Osculating orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime, with an application to extreme mass-ratio inspirals
We present a method to integrate the equations of motion that govern bound, accelerated orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime. At each instant the true worldline is assumed to lie tangent to a reference geodesic, called an osculating orbit, such that the worldline evolves smoothly from one such geodesic...
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Language: | English |
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2008-02-08.
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