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

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 valid to all orders in the magnitude of the spin. We present results for the rate of change of mass and angular momentum in a background field and find agreement with previous calculations obtained by different techniques. We also present new results for both the non-conservative equations of motion and power loss/gain for a binary inspiral, which start at 5PN and 2.5PN order respectively and manifest the Penrose process.

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This study generalizes the Worldline EFT formalism to calculate non-conservative tidal effects on spinning black holes, presenting results in agreement with previous calculations. New results for binary inspiral show the Penrose process starting at 5PN and 2.5PN order.