Imprint of black hole area quantization and Hawking radiation on inspiraling binary

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We study the potential of gravitational wave astronomy to observe the quantum aspects of black holes.

• According to Bekenstein's quantization, we find that black hole area discretization can have observable imprints on the gravitational wave signal from an inspiraling binary black hole.
• We study the impact of quantization on tidal heating.
• We model the absorption lines and compute gravitational wave flux due to tidal heating in such a case.