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Gravitational Bremsstrahlung Waveform at the fourth Post-Minkowskian order and the second Post-Newtonian level

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-07-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Using the Multipolar Post-Minkowskian formalism, we compute the frequency-domain waveform generated by the gravitational scattering of two nonspinning bodies at the fourth post-Minkowskian order (O(G4)O(G^4), or two-loop order), and at the fractional second Post-Newtonian accuracy (O(v4/c4)O(v^4/c^4)). The waveform is decomposed in spin-weighted spherical harmonics and the needed radiative multipoles, Um(ω),Vm(ω)U_{\ell m}(\omega), V_{\ell m}(\omega), are explicitly expressed in terms of a small number of master integrals. The basis of master integrals contains both (modified) Bessel functions, and solutions of inhomogeneous Bessel equations with Bessel-function sources. We show how to express the latter in terms of Meijer G functions. The low-frequency expansion of our results is checked againg existing classical soft theorems. We also complete our previous results on the O(G2)O(G^2) bremsstrahlung waveform by computing the O(G3)O(G^3) spectral densities of radiated energy and momentum, in the rest frame of one body, at the thirtieth order in velocity.

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@article{arxiv.2407.02076,
  title  = {Gravitational Bremsstrahlung Waveform at the fourth Post-Minkowskian order and the second Post-Newtonian level},
  author = {Donato Bini and Thibault Damour and Andrea Geralico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02076},
  year   = {2024}
}

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