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Published May 21, 2021 | Submitted + Published
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Gravitational Bremsstrahlung from Reverse Unitarity

Abstract

We compute the total radiated momentum carried by gravitational waves during the scattering of two spinless black holes at the lowest order in Newton's constant, O(G³), and all orders in velocity. By analytic continuation into the bound state regime, we obtain the O(G³) energy loss in elliptic orbits. This provides an essential step toward the complete understanding of the third-post-Minkowskian binary dynamics. We employ the formalism of Kosower, Maybee, and O'Connell (KMOC), which relates classical observables to quantum scattering amplitudes, and derive the relevant integrands using generalized unitarity. The subsequent phase-space integrations are performed via the reverse unitarity method familiar from collider physics, using differential equations to obtain the exact velocity dependence from near-static boundary conditions.

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© 2021 Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. Received 4 February 2021; accepted 15 April 2021; published 17 May 2021. We thank Zvi Bern, Radu Roiban, Chia-Hsien Shen, and Mikhail Solon for helpful comments and collaboration on related projects and Clifford Cheung and Rafael Porto for discussions and comments on the draft. We are also grateful to Paolo Di Vecchia, Carlo Heissenberg, Rodolfo Russo, and Gabriele Veneziano for stimulating discussions regarding radiative effects and cross-checks of various soft master integrals. E. H. thanks Lance Dixon and Bernhard Mistlberger for discussions about the reverse unitarity method. E. H. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Award No. DE-SC0009937. J. P.-M. is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Award No. DE-SC0011632. M. S. R.'s work is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Research Training Group GRK 2044. M. Z.'s work is funded by the U.K. Royal Society through Grant No. URF.

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