New horizons for fundamental physics with LISA

KG Arun, E Belgacem, R Benkel, L Bernard… - Living Reviews in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders
about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the …

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 …

The radius of PSR J0740+ 6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton data

MC Miller, FK Lamb, AJ Dittmann… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
PSR J0740+ 6620 has a gravitational mass of 2.08±0.07 M⊙, which is the highest reliably
determined mass of any neutron star. As a result, a measurement of its radius will provide …

Compton black-hole scattering for s≤ 5/2

M Chiodaroli, H Johansson, P Pichini - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Quantum scattering amplitudes for massive matter have received new attention in
connection to classical calculations relevant to gravitational-wave physics. Amplitude …

Spin effects in the effective field theory approach to post-Minkowskian conservative dynamics

Z Liu, RA Porto, Z Yang - Journal of high energy physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Building upon the worldline effective field theory (EFT) formalism for spinning
bodies developed for the Post-Newtonian regime, we generalize the EFT approach to Post …

Destabilizing the fundamental mode of black holes: the elephant and the flea

MHY Cheung, K Destounis, RP Macedo, E Berti… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Recent work applying the notion of pseudospectrum to gravitational physics showed that the
quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes is unstable, with the possible exception of the …

On the vanishing of Love numbers for Kerr black holes

P Charalambous, S Dubovsky, MM Ivanov - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract It was shown recently that the static tidal response coefficients, called Love
numbers, vanish identically for Kerr black holes in four dimensions. In this work, we confirm …

Dynamical tidal response of Kerr black holes from scattering amplitudes

MVS Saketh, Z Zhou, MM Ivanov - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We match scattering amplitudes in point particle effective field theory (EFT) and general
relativity to extract low frequency dynamical tidal responses of rotating (Kerr) black holes to …

Love symmetry

P Charalambous, S Dubovsky, MM Ivanov - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Perturbations of massless fields in the Kerr-Newman black hole background enjoy
a (“Love”) SL (2, ℝ) symmetry in the suitably defined near zone approximation. We present a …

Non-conservative effects on spinning black holes from world-line effective field theory

WD Goldberger, J Li, IZ Rothstein - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We generalize the worldline EFT formalism developed in [4–9] to calculate the non-
conservative tidal effects on spinning black holes in a long wavelength approximation that is …