English
Related papers

Related papers: Binary Kerr black-hole scattering at 2PM from quan…

200 papers

The excitation of quadratic quasinormal modes is an important nonlinear phenomenon for a Kerr black hole ringing at a specific linear mode. The amplitude of this second-order effect is proportional to the square of the linear mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-27 Sizheng Ma , Huan Yang

We compute the potential-graviton contribution to the scattering amplitude, the radial action, and the scattering angle of two extremal black holes in N = 8 supergravity at the fifth post-Minkowskian order to next-to-leading order in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Zvi Bern , Enrico Herrmann , Radu Roiban , Michael S. Ruf , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Mao Zeng

The motion of compact binaries is influenced by the spin of their components starting at the 1.5 post-Newtonian (PN) order. On the other hand, in the large mass ratio limit, the spin of the lighter object appears in the equations of motion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Vojtěch Witzany , Viktor Skoupý , Leo C. Stein , Sashwat Tanay

Recent gravitational wave (GW) detections showing signatures of eccentricity and spin precession underscore the need to model binary black holes (BBHs) possessing these features simultaneously. Most efforts over the past fifteen years to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Tom Colin , Sashwat Tanay , Laura Bernard

This work on spin-0 amplitudes in black-hole evaporation is based on the underlying results and methods outlined in our first paper, "I. Complex Approach". The main result here, and the model calculation for work on all higher spins, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. St. J. Farley , P. D. D'Eath

We utilize various computational techniques in flat and curved backgrounds to calculate the classical gravitational Compton amplitude up to the second post-Minkowskian order. Our novel result supports the use of worldline quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Carl Jordan Eriksen , Nabha Shah

Scattering of particles in the gravitational field of rotating black holes is considered. Expressions for scattering energy of particles in the centre of mass system are obtained. It is shown that scattering energy of particles in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-05 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

An exact and analytical solution, in four-dimensional general relativity, describing a collinear array of an arbitrary number of Kerr black holes inside an expanding bubble of nothing is built, thanks to the inverse scattering technique.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Marco Astorino

We integrate the third and a half post-Newtonian equations of motion for a fully generic binary black hole system, allowing both for non-circular orbits, and for one or both of the black holes to spin, in any orientation. Using the second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Brennan Ireland , Ofek Birnholtz , Hiroyuki Nakano , Eric West , Manuela Campanelli

We study the propagation of scalar fields on various backgrounds in three dimensional higher spin gravity. Our main emphasis is on obtaining the bulk-boundary propagator, which can be efficiently computed using group theory and higher spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter

We describe recent numerical simulations of the merger of a class of equal mass, non-spinning, eccentric binary black hole systems in general relativity. We show that with appropriate fine-tuning of the initial conditions to a region of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frans Pretorius , Deepak Khurana

We study the dynamics of a binary orbiting a supermassive black hole (SMBH), focusing on both binary scattering in unbound orbits and eccentric von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai (vZLK) oscillations in bound orbits. The motion is described in a local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 Kei-ichi Maeda , Hirotada Okawa

We compute next-to-next-to-leading order spin contributions to the post-Newtonian equations of motion for binaries of compact objects, such as black holes or neutron stars. For maximally spinning black holes, those contributions are of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Sylvain Marsat , Alejandro Bohe , Guillaume Faye , Luc Blanchet

We present a preliminary study of the multipolar structure of gravitational radiation from spinning black hole binary mergers. We consider three different spinning binary configurations: (1) one "hang-up" run, where the black holes have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Berti , V. Cardoso , J. A. Gonzalez , U. Sperhake , B. Bruegmann

We present a straightforward approach for estimating the final black hole spin of a binary black hole coalescence with arbitrary initial masses and spins. Making some simple assumptions, we estimate the final angular momentum to be the sum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Alessandra Buonanno , Lawrence E. Kidder , Luis Lehner

The angular dependence of the gravitational radiation emitted in compact binary mergers and gravitational collapse is usually separated using spin-weighted spherical harmonics ${}_sY_{\ell m}$ of spin weight $s$, that reduce to the ordinary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-17 Emanuele Berti , Antoine Klein

We numerically solve the Teukolsky equation in the time domain to obtain the gravitational-wave emission of a small mass inspiraling and plunging into the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole. We account for the dissipation of orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrea Taracchini , Alessandra Buonanno , Gaurav Khanna , Scott A. Hughes

Efforts are underway to accurately model extreme-mass-ratio inspirals for binaries with a spinning (Kerr) primary. At lowest order the adiabatic evolution depends on the radiation fluxes. Fluxes and other self-force quantities can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Jezreel C. Castillo , Charles R. Evans , Chris Kavanagh , Jakob Neef , Barry Wardell , Adrian Ottewill

Recent X-ray timing and spectral observations of black hole binaries in outburst have redefined methods for investigating the properties of Galactic black holes and the physics of accretion flows. High-frequency X-ray QPOs in 5 systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Remillard

We present a calculation of the conservative two-body Hamiltonian of a compact binary system including a spinning black hole. We include up-to third order corrections in Newton's constant $G$, all orders in velocity, and linear and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Fernando Febres Cordero