15th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity

Self-force driven inspiral of a scalar point particle into a Schwarzschild black hole

Roland Haas

Caltech
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I describe a proof-of-concept implementation of a code to self-consistently compute the first order self force on a scalar point particle in orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole and its influence on the particle's trajectory. The self force is computed locally in a multipole decompositon formalism and used to update the particle's trajectory, thus taking both dissipative and conservative effects into account.