The significance of first post-adiabatic contributions for scalar charge measurements with intermediate and extreme mass ratio inspirals

arXiv:2607.09310 · gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-07-10 · Read on arXiv

Susanna Barsanti, Ollie Burke, Andrea Maselli, Thomas P. Sotiriou, Andrew Spiers, Niels Warburton

gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-07-10

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Effective Field Theory (EFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Initial Data — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna — 1× in this paper
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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