Physics 305: Special Topics in Theoretical Physics (Self-force theory)

   Schedule for Reporting (May 4 - May 15)

   Reading List for Reporting

   Problem Set 2 (Due May 20.)

   Problem Set 1 (Due April 29.)

   Syllabus

   Readings:

   (1) Introduction to gravitational waves

            - Chapter 16 of "Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars", Shapiro and Teukolsky

            - Basics of gravitational-wave theory, Flanagan and Hughes (arXiv:gr-qc/0501041)

            - Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Holes and Relativistic Stars, Rezzolla, (arXiv:gr-qc/0302025)

            - Chapter 9 of "A First Course in General Relativity", B. Schutz

   (2) Extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

            - Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals -- Astrophysics, Science Applications and Detection using LISA, Amaro-Seoane,

              (arXiv:astro-ph/0703495)

   (3) Introduction to black hole perturbation theory

            - Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Holes and Relativistic Stars, Rezzolla, (arXiv:gr-qc/0302025)

   (4) Radiation reaction in flat spacetime

            - Poisson, An Introduction to the Lorentz-Dirac equation, (arXiv:gr-qc/9912045)

   (5) Bitensors and Green functions in curved spacetime

            - Poisson, Pound, Vega, Living Reviews in Relativity (arXiv:1102.0529)