Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Eccentric binary compact mergers are prime targets of current and future gravitational wave observatories. In the small mass ratio expansion, post-adiabatic inspirals have been modeled up to the separatrix, where first-principle modeling currently ends. In this paper, we derive the analytic late time solution to the adiabatic inspiral in terms of self-force coefficients at the separatrix. We identify the role of the Lambert W_{-1} W − 1 function as a key mathematical ingredient in the approach to the separatrix.
Source: SciPost Physics Core
Authors: Guillaume Lhost, Geoffrey Compère
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413827901