Lior M. Burko, Gaurav Khanna
We consider the importance of the second-order dissipative self force for gravitational wave dephasing for an extreme or intermediate mass ratio system moving along a quasi-circular Schwarzschild orbit. For the first-order self force we use the fully relativistic force in the Lorenz gauge. The second-order self force is modeled by its 3.5 post Newtonian counterpart. We evolve the system using the osculating orbits method, and obtain the gravitational waveforms, whose phase includes all the terms - within our approximation - that are independent of the system's mass ratio. The partial dephasing due to the second-order dissipative self force is substantially smaller than that of the first-order conservative self force, although they are both at the same order in the mass ratio.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5296
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