5.9 Adiabatic evolution of constants of motion for orbits with generic inclination angle and with small
eccentricity around a Kerr black hole
Update
The calculation in Section 5.8 was extended to orbits with generic inclination angle by Ganz et al. [48
].
We specify the geodesics by the semi-latus rectum
and the eccentricity
and a dimensionless
inclination parameter
. The outer and inner turning point of the radial motion is here define as
The inclination parameter is defined by
which is the same as Equation (210). We define
. By solving these equations with respect to
and
, we obtain
where
The average rate of change of
,
and
become up to
,
Here, a term
is factored out. We can express
in terms of
by using
Equation (3.15) in [48
] as
The average rate of change of
,
and
are rewritten as
If we assume that the inclination angle is small and
, we find that
Equations (229) – (231) reduce respectively to (220) – (222) in Section 5.8. As discussed in [48], in the case
of largely inclined orbits, the fundamental frequency of gravitational waves is expressed not only with
but also the frequency of
-ocillation,
.