Radiation Backreaction in Spinning Binaries

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how radiation backreaction affects the evolution of a black hole binary system with a spinning black hole and a negligible-spin companion, providing new parametrization and averaged loss formulas.

Contribution

It introduces a simplified parametrization for generic orbits and derives averaged radiation losses to linear order in black hole spin.

Findings

Derived averaged energy and angular momentum losses during one orbit.

Provided a new parametrization simplifying orbit integration.

Analyzed the first-order effects of black hole spin on binary evolution.

Abstract

The evolution under radiation backreaction of a binary system consisting of a black hole and a companion is studied in the limiting case when the spin of the companion is negligible compared with the spin S of the black hole. To first order in the spin, the motion of the reduced-mass particle excluding radiation effects, is characterized by three constants: the energy E, the magnitude L of the angular momentum and the projection L_S of the angular momentum along the spin S. This motion is quasiperiodic with a period determined by r_{min} and r_{max}. We introduce a new parametrization, making the integration over a period of a generic orbit especially simple. We give the averaged losses in terms of the 'constants of motion' during one period for generic orbits, to linear order in spin.