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20202026
most citedCelestial holography on Kerr-Schild backgrounds

48 citations · 248 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

gr-qc2026

Towards ultrarelativistic scattering near the light ring: asymptotic divergence of gravitational-wave fluxes

David Trestini, Riccardo Gonzo, Benjamin Leather

Near the threshold between scattering and capture by a Schwarzschild black hole, a particle spends a long time close to an unstable circular orbit, which in the ultrarelativistic l…

gr-qc2026★ 2 cited

Resummed energy loss in extreme-mass-ratio scattering using critical orbits

Leor Barack, Riccardo Gonzo, Benjamin Leather +2

Motivated by recent efforts to bridge between weak-field and strong-field descriptions of black-hole binary dynamics, we develop a resummation scheme for post-Minkowskian radiative…

hep-th2026★ 1 cited

Gravitational amplitudes in the Regge limit: waveforms, shock waves and unitarity cuts

Francesco Alessio, Vittorio Del Duca, Riccardo Gonzo +1

Motivated by recent progress in the high-energy description of gravitational scattering, we develop a systematic Regge-theory framework for amplitudes describing the scat…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Analytic structure of the high-energy gravitational amplitude: multi-H diagrams and classical 5PM logarithms

Francesco Alessio, Vittorio Del Duca, Riccardo Gonzo +3

We investigate the high-energy, small-angle limit of two-body gravitational scattering. Using power counting arguments and dispersion relations in an effective field theory for the…

hep-th2025

Unexpected Symmetries of Kerr Black Hole Scattering

Dogan Akpinar, Graham R. Brown, Riccardo Gonzo +1

Motivated by the recent introduction of the Dirac bracket framework to compute spinning observables for the scattering of Kerr black holes, we initiate the study of conserved quant…

hep-th2025★ 10 cited

The spinning self-force EFT: 1SF waveform recursion relation and Compton scattering

Dogan Akpinar, Vittorio del Duca, Riccardo Gonzo

Building on recent approaches, we develop an effective field theory for the interaction of spinning particles modeling Kerr black holes within the gravitational self-force expansio…

gr-qc2024★ 5 cited

The first law of binary black hole scattering

Riccardo Gonzo, Jack Lewis, Adam Pound

In the last decade, the first law of binary black hole mechanics played an important unifying role in the gravitational two-body problem. More recently, binary black hole scatterin…

hep-th2024★ 27 cited

Gravitational Bound Waveforms from Amplitudes

Tim Adamo, Riccardo Gonzo, Anton Ilderton

With the aim of computing bound waveforms from scattering amplitudes, we explore gravitational two-body dynamics using the Schwinger-Dyson equations and Bethe-Salpeter recursion. W…

hep-th2023★ 42 cited

Spinning waveforms from KMOC at leading order

Stefano De Angelis, Riccardo Gonzo, Pavel P. Novichkov

We provide the analytic waveform in time domain for the scattering of two Kerr black holes at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion and up to fourth order in both spins.…

hep-th2023★ 12 cited

Wave scattering event shapes at high energies

Riccardo Gonzo, Anton Ilderton

We study the space and properties of global and local observables for radiation emitted in the scattering of a massive scalar field in gauge and gravitational plane-wave background…

hep-th2022★ 34 cited

Bethe-Salpeter equation for classical gravitational bound states

Tim Adamo, Riccardo Gonzo

The Bethe-Salpeter equation is a non-perturbative, relativistic and covariant description of two-body bound states. We derive the classical Bethe-Salpeter equation for two massive…

hep-th2022★ 48 cited

Celestial holography on Kerr-Schild backgrounds

Riccardo Gonzo, Tristan McLoughlin, Andrea Puhm

We explore the celestial holography proposal for non-trivial asymptotically flat backgrounds including the Coulomb field of a static and spinning point charge, their gravitational…

hep-th2021★ 34 cited

Graviton particle statistics and coherent states from classical scattering amplitudes

Ruth Britto, Riccardo Gonzo, Guy R. Jehu

In the two-body scattering problem in general relativity, we study the final graviton particle distribution using a perturbative approach. We compute the mean, the variance and the…

hep-th2020★ 31 cited

Light-ray operators, detectors and gravitational event shapes

Riccardo Gonzo, Andrzej Pokraka

Light-ray operators naturally arise from integrating Einstein equations at null infinity along the light-cone time. We associate light-ray operators to physical detectors on the ce…