Tidal Resonance in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals
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PhysRevLett.123.101103.pdf
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Author(s)
Bonga, Béatrice
Yang, Huan
Hughes, Scott A
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2019 American Physical Society. We describe a new class of resonances for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs): tidal resonances, induced by the tidal field of nearby stars or stellar-mass black holes. A tidal resonance can be viewed as a general relativistic extension of the Kozai-Lidov resonances in Newtonian systems and is distinct from the transient resonance already known for EMRI systems. Tidal resonances will generically occur for EMRIs. By probing their influence on the phase of an EMRI waveform, we can learn about the tidal environmental of the EMRI system, albeit at the cost of a more complicated waveform model. Observations by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna of EMRI systems therefore have the potential to provide information about the distribution of stellar-mass objects near their host galactic-center black holes.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.123.101103
