Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Self-force and radiation reaction in general relativity

L Barack, A Pound - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The detection of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers by the LIGO–Virgo
Collaboration marks the dawn of an era when general-relativistic dynamics in its most …

Scattering in black hole backgrounds and higher-spin amplitudes. Part II

YF Bautista, A Guevara, C Kavanagh… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023‏ - Springer
A bstract We continue to investigate correspondences between, on the one hand, scattering
amplitudes for massive higher-spin particles and gravitons in appropriate quantum-to …

High-energy gravitational scattering and the general relativistic two-body problem

T Damour - Physical Review D, 2018‏ - APS
A technique for translating the classical scattering function of two gravitationally interacting
bodies into a corresponding (effective one-body) Hamiltonian description has been recently …

The effective field theorist's approach to gravitational dynamics

RA Porto - Physics Reports, 2016‏ - Elsevier
We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on
extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from …

Post-Newtonian theory for gravitational waves

L Blanchet - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2024‏ - Springer
To be observed and analyzed by the network of current gravitational-wave detectors (LIGO,
Virgo, KAGRA), and in anticipation of future third generation ground-based (Einstein …

Effective field theory for extreme mass ratio binaries

C Cheung, J Parra-Martinez, IZ Rothstein, N Shah… - Physical Review Letters, 2024‏ - APS
We derive an effective field theory describing a pair of gravitationally interacting point
particles in an expansion in their mass ratio, also known as the self-force (SF) expansion …

Enhancing the SEOBNRv5 effective-one-body waveform model with second-order gravitational self-force fluxes

M van de Meent, A Buonanno, DP Mihaylov… - Physical Review D, 2023‏ - APS
We leverage recent breakthrough calculations using second-order gravitational self-force
(2GSF) theory to improve both the gravitational-mode amplitudes and radiation-reaction …

Energetics and scattering of gravitational two-body systems at fourth post-Minkowskian order

M Khalil, A Buonanno, J Steinhoff, J Vines - Physical Review D, 2022‏ - APS
Upcoming observational runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration and future
gravitational-wave (GW) detectors on the ground and in space require waveform models …

Black hole perturbation theory and gravitational self-force

A Pound, B Wardell - Handbook of gravitational wave astronomy, 2022‏ - Springer
Much of the success of gravitational-wave astronomy rests on perturbation theory.
Historically, perturbative analysis of gravitational-wave sources has largely focused on post …