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We study propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic and gravitational waves in the gravitational field of a rotating black hole. Due to the interaction of the spin of the field with the spacetime curvature, the standard geometric optics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Valeri P. Frolov , Alex Koek

We compute the radiation reacted momentum impulse $\Delta p_i^\mu$, spin kick $\Delta S_i^\mu$, and scattering angle $\theta$ between two scattered spinning massive bodies (black holes or neutron stars) using the $\mathcal{N}=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-23 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer

We compute the classical one-loop gravitational Compton amplitude describing the scattering of a graviton off a massive spinning compact object at the second post-Minkowskian order, including terms through the quartic order in spin. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Dogan Akpinar

Using the worldline quantum field theory formalism, we compute the conservative scattering angle and impulse for classical black hole scattering at fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) order by providing the second self-force (2SF) contributions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Mathias Driesse , Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Christoph Nega , Jan Plefka , Benjamin Sauer , Johann Usovitsch

Black holes are an ubiquitous end state of stellar evolution and successfully explain some of the most extreme physics encountered in astronomical observations. The Kerr geometry is the known exact solution to Einstein's equations for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-14 Michael Grudich

Using the recently derived higher spin gravitational Compton amplitude from low-energy analytically continued ($a/Gm\gg1$) solutions of the Teukolsky equation for the scattering of a gravitational wave off the Kerr black hole, observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista

We investigate the scattering of a spinning test particle by a Kerr black hole within the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon model to linear order in spin. The particle's spin and orbital angular momentum are taken to be aligned with the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Justin Vines

Using a heavy-mass effective field theory (HEFT), we study gravitational-wave emission in the scattering of two spinless black holes or neutron stars of arbitrary masses at next-to-leading order in the Post-Minkowskian expansion. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Gang Chen , Stefano De Angelis , Joshua Gowdy , Gabriele Travaglini

Applications of effective field theory (EFT) and scattering amplitudes to gravitational problems have recently produced many unique results that advanced our understanding of the dynamics of compact binaries. Many of these results were made…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Jovan Markovic , Mikhail M. Ivanov

Using the Teukolsky and Sasaki-Nakamura equations for the gravitational perturbation of the Kerr spacetime, we calculate the post-Newtonian expansion of the energy and angular momentum luminosities of gravitational waves from a test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Masaru Shibata , Misao Sasaki , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

We introduce a covariant Multipole Expansion for the scattering of a massive particle emitting photons or gravitons in $D$ dimensions. We find that these amplitudes exhibit very powerful features such as universality, soft exponentiation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-17 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara

We propose a method to compute the scattering angle for classical black hole scattering directly from two massive particle irreducible diagrams in a heavy-mass effective field theory approach to general relativity, without the need of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Andreas Brandhuber , Gang Chen , Gabriele Travaglini , Congkao Wen

Quantum scattering amplitudes for massive matter have received new attention in connection to classical calculations relevant to gravitational-wave physics. Amplitude methods and insights are now employed for precision computations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Marco Chiodaroli , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

A generalization of Wilson line operators at subleading power in the soft expansion has been recently introduced as an efficient building block of gravitational scattering amplitudes for non-spinning objects. The classical limit in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

In this work the worldline quantum field theory (WQFT) approach to computing observables of the classical general relativistic two-body system is presented. Compact bodies such as black holes or neutron stars are described in an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

In this article, we compute the two observables, impulse and waveform, in a black hole scattering event for the Scalar-Tensor theory of gravity with a generic scalar potential using the techniques of Worldline Quantum Field Theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Debodirna Ghosh , Saptaswa Ghosh , Sounak Pal

Using the Teukolsky and Sasaki-Nakamura formalisms for the perterbations around a Kerr black hole, we calculate the energy flux of gravitational waves induced by a {\it spinning} particle of mass $\mu$ and spin $S$ moving in circular orbits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Takahiro Tanaka , Yasushi Mino , Misao Sasaki , Masaru Shibata

We employ the "KMOC" formalism of [1] to compute classical momentum deflections of spinning bodies with arbitrary spin orientations up to next-to-leading order (one loop). We do this in electrodynamics and gravity. The final result, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-18 Gabriel Menezes , Matteo Sergola

We use $\mathcal N=8$ supergravity as a toy model for understanding the dynamics of black hole binary systems via the scattering amplitudes approach. We compute the conservative part of the classical scattering angle of two extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Julio Parra-Martinez , Michael S. Ruf , Mao Zeng

Highly accurate models of the gravitational-wave signal from coalescing compact binaries are built by completing analytical computations of the binary dynamics with non-perturbative information from numerical relativity (NR) simulations. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-21 Piero Rettegno , Geraint Pratten , Lucy Thomas , Patricia Schmidt , Thibault Damour