{"paper":{"title":"Scalar self-force for highly eccentric equatorial orbits in Kerr spacetime","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"gr-qc","authors_text":"Barry Wardell, Jonathan Thornburg","submitted_at":"2016-10-28T17:14:08Z","abstract_excerpt":"If a small \"particle\" of mass $\\mu M$ (with $\\mu \\ll 1$) orbits a black hole of mass $M$, the leading-order radiation-reaction effect is an $\\mathcal{O}(\\mu^2)$ \"self-force\" acting on the particle, with a corresponding $\\mathcal{O}(\\mu)$ \"self-acceleration\" of the particle away from a geodesic. Such \"extreme--mass-ratio inspiral\" systems are likely to be important gravitational-wave sources for future space-based gravitational-wave detectors. Here we consider the \"toy model\" problem of computing the self-force for a scalar-field particle on a bound eccentric orbit in Kerr spacetime. We use the"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1610.09319","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}