English

Radiated Energy Spectrum, Radiated Angular Distribution and Non-linear Memory from the One-loop Gravitational Bremsstrahlung Waveform

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-07-04 v1

Abstract

The frequency-domain gravitational waveform emitted by the scattering of two non-spinning massive particles has recently been derived at next-to-leading, \textit{i.e.} one-loop, post-Minkowskian order, h(ω,θ,ϕ)G2+G3h(\omega, \theta,\phi) \sim G^2 + G^3. Building on this one-loop-accurate frequency-domain gravitational waveform, we successively derive the spectral gravitational-wave (GW) radiance, dEgw/(dωdΩ)dE^{\rm gw}/(d\omega d\Omega), the radiated GW energy spectrum, dEgw/dωdE^{\rm gw}/d\omega, and the radiated GW angular distribution, dEgw/dΩdE^{\rm gw}/d\Omega, up to order G4G^4 included. We deduce from the radiated angular distribution the multipole expansion of the non-linear memory up to order G5G^5 included, thereby extending previous results. We work in the center-of-mass frame, and our results reach the fractional 7.5PN accuracy. For completeness, we include the tree-level information (considered in the center-of-mass frame).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.03879,
  title  = {Radiated Energy Spectrum, Radiated Angular Distribution and Non-linear Memory from the One-loop Gravitational Bremsstrahlung Waveform},
  author = {Donato Bini and Thibault Damour and Stefano De Angelis and Andrea Geralico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.03879},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

23 pages, revtex macros used

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