Analytic Electromagnetic Effective Source for Geodesic Orbit in Schwarzschild Spacetime

Abstract

Self-force effects are essential for accurately describing the motion of small bodies in curved spacetime. The effective-source approach privides a promising route to higher-order self-force calculations. In this paper, we construct analytic electromagnetic effective source for geodesic motion in Schwarzschild spacetime. An angular completion and a tetrad decomposition express the vector-harmonic puncture modes as finite sums of scalar modes. We derive the coupling coefficients for both parity sectors and obtain the effective sources from the Maxwell mode equations. The point-particle delta contribution cancels, and representative eccentric-orbit results show finite mode sources near the particle. These expressions provide the source terms for future $1+1$-dimensional residual-field calculations.