15th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity

Eccentric orbits on a Schwarzschild spacetime: Transforming metric perturbations from Regge-Wheeler to Lorenz gauge

Seth Hopper

Albert Einstein Institute
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We consider a particle in eccentric orbit about a Schwarzschild black hole. Having solved the field equations to high accuracy at first-order in Regge-Wheeler gauge, we wish to move to Lorenz gauge for the purpose of self-force calculations. Following formalism developed by Sago, Nakano, and Sasaki (2002), we present ongoing work on this transformation.