Self-forced evolutions of an implicit rotating source: A natural framework to model comparable and intermediate mass-ratio systems from inspiral through ringdown

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We develop a waveform model to describe the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary systems with comparable and intermediate mass-ratios.

• This model incorporates first-order conservative self-force corrections to the energy and angular momentum, which are valid in the strong-field regime [1].
• We model the radiative part of the self-force by deriving second-order radiative corrections to the energy flux.
• These corrections are obtained by minimizing the phase discrepancy between our self-force model and the effective one body model [2, 3] for a variety of mass-ratios.