Abstract
Unlike in the Schwarzschild black hole background, gravitational perturbations in a Kerr black hole background can not be decomposed into simple tensor harmonics in the time domain. Here, we make mode decompositions only in the azimuthal direction. As a first step, we discuss the resulting (2+1)-dimensional Klein-Gordon differential equation for scalar perturbations with a two dimensional Dirac’s -function as a source representing a point particle orbiting a much larger black hole. To make this equation amenable for numerical integrations we explicitly remove analytically the singular behavior of the source and compute a global, well behaved, effective source for the corresponding waveform.
Publication Date
6-29-2008
Document Type
Article
Department, Program, or Center
School of Physics and Astronomy (COS)
Recommended Citation
Carlos O Lousto and Hiroyuki Nakano 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 145018
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication/published in Classical and Quantum Gravity. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/25/14/145018
© 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Also archived in arXiv:0802.4277 v2 Apr 21, 2008.
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