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To obtain the waveform template of gravitational waves (GWs), substantial computational resources and exceedingly high precision are often required. In the previous study [JCAP 11 (2023) 070], we efficiently and accurately calculate GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Changkai Chen , Jiliang Jing

We revisit the old black hole S-Matrix construction and its new partial wave expansion of 't Hooft. Inspired by old ideas from non-critical string theory & $c=1$ Matrix Quantum Mechanics, we reformulate the scattering in terms of a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-06 Panagiotis Betzios , Nava Gaddam , Olga Papadoulaki

Picture yourself in the wave zone of a gravitational scattering event of two massive, spinning compact bodies (black holes, neutron stars or stars). We show that this system of genuine astrophysical interest enjoys a hidden $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

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

We study the process, within classical general relativity, in which an incident gravitational plane wave, of weak amplitude and long wavelength, scatters off a massive spinning compact object, such as a black hole or neutron star. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 M. V. S. Saketh , Justin Vines

We quantify for the first time the gravitational wave (GW) phase shift appearing in the waveform of eccentric binary black hole (BBH) mergers formed dynamically in three-body systems. For this, we have developed a novel numerical method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Johan Samsing , Kai Hendriks , Lorenz Zwick , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Bin Liu

Aspects of super-planckian gravitational scattering and black hole formation are investigated, largely via a partial-wave representation. At large and decreasing impact parameters, amplitudes are expected to be governed by single graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven B. Giddings , Mark Srednicki

We study gravitational wave emission from periodic orbits of a test particle around a noncommutative-inspired black hole surrounded by quintessence. Using the zoom-whirl taxonomy, which is characterized by three topological numbers $(z, w,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Fazlay Ahmed , Qiang Wu , Sushant G Ghosh , Tao Zhu

A precise link is derived between scalar-graviton S-matrix elements and expectation values of operators in a worldline quantum field theory (WQFT), both used to describe classical scattering of a pair of black holes. The link is formally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

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.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Tim Adamo , Giuseppe Bogna , Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma

Gravitational wave (GW) data from observed binary black hole coalescences (BBHC) have been demonstrated in recent analyses to validate the Hawking Area Theorem (HAT) for black hole horizons. The result of such analyses is imposed here as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Parthasarathi Majumdar

The scattering of massless waves of helicity $|h|=0,\frac{1}{2},1$ in Schwarzschild and Kerr backgrounds is revisited in the long-wavelenght regime. Using a novel description of such backgrounds in terms of gravitating massive particles, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara , Chris Kavanagh , Justin Vines

We study scattering of waves by black holes. Solving a massless scalar field with a point source in the Schwarzschild spacetime, waves scattered by the black hole is obtained numerically. We then reconstruct images of the black hole from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Ken-ichiro Kanai , Yasusada Nambu

A unified equation is employed to analytically investigate the scattering of massless spin particles by a Schwarzschild-type medium black hole. It is found that for spin particles, curved spacetime induces an effective complex potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhong-Heng Li

Recent developments in the gravitational waves interferometry require more pertinent theoretical models of gravitational waves generation and propagation. Untouched possible mechanisms of spin-2 spacetime perturbations production, we will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-01 A. M. Arslanaliev , A. J. Nurmagambetov

We analyze the gravitational radiation emitted from a particle in circular motion around a Schwarzschild black hole using the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetime at tree level. The gravitational perturbations are written…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-03 Rafael P. Bernar , Luís C. B. Crispino , Atsushi Higuchi

We review recent progress and future prospects for harnessing powerful tools from theoretical high-energy physics, such as scattering amplitudes and effective field theory, to develop a precise and systematically improvable framework for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Alessandra Buonanno , Mohammed Khalil , Donal O'Connell , Radu Roiban , Mikhail P. Solon , Mao Zeng

We present the first numerical simulations of asymptotically flat space-times whose computational domain includes past and future null-infinity. As an application, we explore the scattering of a gravitational wave in a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Jörg Frauendiener , Chris Stevens , Sebenele Thwala

We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves on a black hole background within the low energy effective field theory of gravity, where effects from heavy fields are captured by higher dimensional curvature operators. Depending on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Claudia de Rham , Jérémie Francfort , Jun Zhang

We investigate the wave effects of gravitational waves (GWs) using numerical simulations with the finite element method (FEM) based on the publicly available code {\it deal.ii}. We robustly test our code using a point source monochromatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Jian-hua He