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Revisiting the second post-Minkowskian eikonal and the dynamics of binary black holes

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The authors study the two-body gravitational scattering of massive scalars in general spacetime dimensions in the limit when both the energies and the impact parameter are large, which is relevant for the scattering of two black holes. The two- body scattering angle between the two black holes up to the second post- Minkowskian order (2PM) is extracted, which in various limits agrees with known results.

Source: Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.066028

Authors: Arnau Koemans Collado, Paolo Di Vecchia, Rodolfo Russo

Institutions: Queen Mary University of London, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Science and Technology Facilities Council

Awards: G1757178473, String Theory, Gauge Theory and Duality, G4341361603, G6944926056