Radiation reaction for spinning black-hole scattering

Starting from the leading soft term of the 5-point amplitude, involving a graviton and two Kerr black holes, that factorises into the product of the elastic amplitude without the graviton and the leading soft factor, we compute the infrared divergent contribution to the imaginary part of the two-loop eikonal. Then, using analyticity and crossing symmetry, we determine the radiative contribution to the real part of the two-loop eikonal and from it the radiative part of the deflection angle for spins aligned to the orbital angular momentum, the loss of angular momentum and the zero frequency limit of the energy spectrum for any spin and for any spin orientation. For spin one we find perfect agreement with recent results obtained with the supersymmetric worldline formalism. (C) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.

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This study computes the leading soft term of the 5-point amplitude involving a graviton and two Kerr black holes. It determines the infrared divergent contribution to the imaginary part of the two-loop eikonal and the radiative contribution to its real part. The results provide insights into deflection angles, angular momentum loss, and energy spectrum for different spin orientations.