Accurate modeling of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: Exploring the
  form of the self-force in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime
  In this paper we develop a waveform model that accurately reproduces the
dynamical evolution of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals, as predicted by the
effective-one-body (EOB) model introduced in [1], and which enables us to shed
some light on the form of the self-force for events with mass-ratio 1:6, 1:10
and 1:100. To complement this study, we make use of self-force results in the
extreme-mass-ratio regime, and of predictions of the EOB model introduced in
[1], to derive a prescription for the shift of the orbital frequency at the
innermost stable circular orbit which consistently captures predictions from
the extreme, intermediate and comparable mass-ratio regimes.
