According to General Relativity, an isolated black hole in vacuum shall be described by the Kerr metric, whose geodesic equations are integrable. The violation of integrability leads to chaos for particles moving around the black hole. This chaotic dynamics could leave imprints on the associated gravitational waveform and could be tested with upcoming observations. In this talk, we discuss the...
The historic detection of gravitational waves paved the way for precision gravitational-wave astrophysics to blossom at unprecedented proportions. In this talk, I will focus on extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that consist of a primary supermassive compact object, and a stellar-mass secondary companion. Even though we are currently performing pertinent tests on order to characterize the...
Black-hole binary spin precession admits equilibrium solutions corresponding to systems with (anti-) aligned spins. Among these, binaries in the up–down configuration, where the spin of the heavier (lighter) black hole is co- (counter-) aligned with the orbital angular momentum, might be unstable to small perturbations of the spin directions. The occurrence of the up–down instability leads to...
Gravitational self-force theory is the primary way of modelling extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). One difficulty that appears in second-order self-force calculations is the strong divergence at the worldline of the small object, which causes both numerical and analytical issues. Previous work [Phys. Rev. D 95, 104056 (2017); ibid. 103, 124016 (2021)] demonstrated that this could be...
Action-angle (AA) coordinates are commonly used in theoretical description of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRI), as they are naturally associated with the two dynamical timescales present in EMRI. However the AA coordinates are rarely used in practical calculations. In our work we implemented analytic methods of canonical perturbation theory to transform geodesic Hamiltonian into AA...
We investigate the robustness of inflation models to inhomogeneous initial conditions. In the simplest case inflation is described by a single scalar field $\phi$ minimally coupled to gravity with homogeneous initial value $\phi_0 and canonical momentum $\Pi_0 = 0$. However, there is no fundamental reason to reckon that inflation started with such homogeneous initial conditions. In our recent...
In this talk we discuss the issue whether the center of the mass of a spinning extended test body moving in a black hole background is just a gauge. The discussion is in the framework of the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations, for which a spin supplementary condition is used in order to fix the center of the mass. To get the answer we employ novel and in principle analytical methods of...
Primordial black holes (PBH) can account for a wide variety of cosmic conundra, among which the origin of the primordial magnetic fields threading the intergalactic medium. In this talk, by considering PBHs naturally furnished with a disk due to the vortexlike motion of the primordial plasma around them, we will propose a novel natural ab initio mechanism for the generation a battery induced...
We discuss exploration for isotropic gravitational wave backgrounds around 1 mHz by correlation analysis, targeting both parity odd and even polarization modes. Even though the space interferometer LISA alone cannot probe the two modes due to cancellations, the outlook is being changed drastically by the strong development of other space detectors such as Taiji. In fact, a heliocentric...
