Published August 19, 2024 | Version v1
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Post-Minkowskian theory meets the spinning effective-one-body approach for two-body scattering

  • 1. Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 3. Institut für Physik und IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Zum Großen Windkanal 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Description

Effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms employed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have primarily been developed by resumming the post-Newtonian expansion of the relativistic two-body problem. Given the recent significant advancements in post-Minkowskian (PM) theory and gravitational self-force formalism, there is considerable interest in creating waveform models that integrate information from various perturbative methods in innovative ways. This becomes particularly crucial when tackling the accuracy challenge posed by upcoming ground-based detectors (such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer) and space-based detectors (such as LISA, TianQin, or Taiji) expected to operate in the next decade. In this context, we present the derivation of the first spinning EOB (SEOB) Hamiltonian that incorporates PM results up to three-loop order: the SEOB-PM model. The model accounts for the complete hyperbolic motion, encompassing nonlocal-in-time tails. To evaluate its accuracy, we compare its predictions for the conservative scattering angle, augmented with dissipative contributions, against numerical-relativity data of nonspinning and spinning equal-mass black holes. We observe very good agreement, comparable, and in some cases slightly better to the recently proposed wEOB-potential model, of which the SEOB-PM model is a resummation around the probe limit. Indeed, in the probe limit, the SEOB-PM Hamiltonian and scattering angles reduce to the one of a test mass in Kerr spacetime. Once complemented with nonlocal-in-time contributions for bound orbits, the SEOB-PM Hamiltonian can be utilized to generate waveform models for spinning black holes on quasicircular orbits.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.110.044038;
arXiv
arXiv:2402.12342;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100001659;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
25 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

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Contract/Grant/Project number
417533893/GRK2575
Notes
Contact Email: Contact author: alessandra.buonanno@aei.mpg.de; Contact Email: Contact author: gustav.uhre.jakobsen@physik.hu-berlin.de; Contact Email: Contact author: gustav.mogull@aei.mpg.de; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft