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Realistic modelling of radiation transfer in and from variable accretion disks around black holes requires the solution of the problem: find the constants of motion and equation of motion of a light-like geodesic connecting two arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-01 Andrej Cadez , Uros Kostic

As one of the fitting methods, the polynomial approximation is effective to process sophisticated problem. In this paper, we employ this approach to handle the scattering of scalar field around the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black-hole. The…

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The light deflection under a strong gravitational field, referred to as strong gravitational lensing, provides a powerful probe of spacetime geometry. Besides, laboratory analogue models are employed to study the effects of curved spacetime…

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The computation of gravitational wave scattering on black hole spacetimes is an extremely hard problem, typically requiring approximation schemes that either treat the black hole perturbatively or are only amenable to numerical techniques.…

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If cosmological constant is positive, a black hole is naturally described by the Schwarzschild-de Sitter solution with two horizons. We use the global method to extract the topological information and the selection rule for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Feng-Li Lin

Astrophysical black holes are likely to be surrounded by various forms of matter in the form of disks or halos. While a number of studies have examined the impact of an environment on the lensing of light or gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Gerasimos Kouniatalis , Arthur G. Suvorov , Kyriakos Destounis

We model the light-curves from radiation-driven clouds near an accreting black hole. Taking into account the multiple images due to strong gravitational lensing, we find that sharp spikes can significantly enhance the observed flux.…

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We develop a non-extensive thermodynamic framework for Reissner--Nordstr\"om black holes based on a near-horizon photon-gas model within Tsallis statistics. We derive the generalized Bekenstein--Hawking entropy based on such an approach,…

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The study of unbound binary-black-hole encounters provides a gauge-invariant approach to exploring strong-field gravitational interactions in two-body systems, which can subsequently inform waveform models for bound orbits. In this work, we…

The effect of the existence of tails on the propagation of scalar waves in curved space-time is considered via an analysis of flux integrals of the energy-stress-momentum tensor of the waves. The geometric optics approximation is formulated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Brien C. Nolan

Based on explicit computations, various concepts of discrete time scattering theory are reviewed, discussed, and illustrated. The dynamics are taking place on a discrete half-space. All operators are represented graphically. The expressions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Rafi Rizqy Firdaus , Serge Richard

We compute the scattering cross section of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes for the case of an incident electromagnetic wave. We describe how scattering is affected by both the conversion of electromagnetic to gravitational radiation, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-18 Luís C. B. Crispino , Sam R. Dolan , Atsushi Higuchi , Ednilton S. de Oliveira

We show how to compute classical wave observables using quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss observables both with incoming and with outgoing waves. The required classical limits are naturally described by coherent states of massless…

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Black hole entropy is identified with the counting of the dynamical degrees of freedom of trapped gravitational modes continually sourced by the Hawking-Unruh process. In the context of linear perturbations of Schwarzschild spacetime the…

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We present a novel method that solves Teukolsky equations with the source to calculate radiation fluxes at infinity and event horizon for any perturbation fields of type-D black holes. For the first time, we use the confluent Heun function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Changkai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Obtaining black hole solutions in alternative theories of gravity can be a difficult task due to cumbersome field equations that arise in many of such theories. In order to study the strong field regime in a model-free approach, one can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-03 Renan B. Magalhães , Luiz C. S. Leite , Luís C. B. Crispino

We compare numerical relativity (NR) data on the scattering of equal-mass, non-spinning binary black holes to various analytical predictions based on post-Minkowskian (PM) results. While the usual sequence of PM-expanded scattering angles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-05 Thibault Damour , Piero Rettegno

Scattering angles for probes in Kerr metrics are derived for scattering in the equatorial plane of the black hole. We use a method that naturally resums all orders in the spin of the Kerr black hole, thus facilitating comparisons with…

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