title: Self-consistent orbital evolution of a particle around a Schwarzschild black hole.
abstract: The motion of a charged particle is influenced by the self-force arising from the particle's interaction with its own field. In a curved spacetime, this self-force depends on the entire past history of the particle and is difficult to evaluate. As a result, all existing self-force evaluations in curved spacetime are for particles moving along a fixed trajectory. Here, for the first time, we overcome this long-standing limitation and present fully self-consistent orbits and waveforms of a scalar charged particle around a Schwarzschild black hole.
authors.affiliation: Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Diener
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vega
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wardell
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Detweiler