Speaker
Thibault Damour
Description
Gravitational wave signals from coalescing binary black holes are detected, and analyzed, by using large banks of template waveforms. The construction of these templates makes an essential use of the analytical knowledge of the motion and radiation of gravitationally interacting binary systems. We shall review some of the results concerning the dynamics and the gravitational-wave emission of scattering black holes recently obtained by scattering-amplitude computations, and/or by classical post-Minkowskian gravity computations.
