scholarly journals Phenomenology of GUP stars

Author(s):  
Luca Buoninfante ◽  
Gaetano Lambiase ◽  
Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano ◽  
Luciano Petruzziello

AbstractWe study quantum corrections at the horizon scale of a black hole induced by a Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) with a quadratic term in the momentum. The interplay between quantum mechanics and gravity manifests itself into a non-zero uncertainty in the location of the black hole radius, which turns out to be larger than the usual Schwarzschild radius. We interpret such an effect as a correction which makes the horizon disappear, as it happens in other models of quantum black holes already considered in literature. We name this kind of horizonless compact objects GUP stars. We also investigate some phenomenological aspects in the astrophysical context of binary systems and gravitational wave emission by discussing Love numbers, quasi-normal modes and echoes, and studying their behavior as functions of the GUP deformation parameter. Finally, we preliminarily explore the possibility to constrain such a parameter with future astrophysical experiments.

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 02006 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.F. Rodríguez ◽  
J.A. Rueda ◽  
R. Ruffini

We have used the perturbations of the exact solutions of the Einstein equations to estimate the relativistic wave emission of a test particle orbiting around a black hole. We show how the hamiltonian equations of motion of a test particle augmented with the radiation-reaction force can establish a priori constraints on the possible phenomena occurring in the merger of compact objects. The dynamical evolution consists of a helicoidal sequence of quasi-circular orbits, induced by the radiation-reaction and the background spacetime. Near the innermost stable circular orbit the evolution is followed by a smooth transition and finally plunges geodesically into the black hole horizon. This analysis gives physical insight of the merger of two equal masses objects.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (09) ◽  
pp. 1641001
Author(s):  
Paolo Pani ◽  
Leonardo Gualtieri ◽  
Andrea Maselli ◽  
Valeria Ferrari

We review recent work on the theory of tidal deformability and the tidal Love numbers of a slowly spinning compact object within general relativity. Angular momentum introduces couplings between distortions of different parity and new classes of spin-induced, tidal Love numbers emerge. Due to spin-tidal effects, a rotating object immersed in a quadrupolar, electric tidal field can acquire some induced mass, spin, quadrupole, octupole and hexadecapole moments to second-order in the spin. The tidal Love numbers depend strongly on the object’s internal structure. All tidal Love numbers of a Kerr black hole (BH) were proved to be exactly zero to first-order in the spin and also to second-order in the spin, at least in the axisymmetric case. For a binary system close to the merger, various components of the tidal field become relevant. Preliminary results suggest that spin-tidal couplings can introduce important corrections to the gravitational waveforms of spinning neutron star (NS) binaries approaching the merger.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. P. Abbott ◽  
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R. Abbott ◽  
T. D. Abbott ◽  
S. Abraham ◽  
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AbstractWe present our current best estimate of the plausible observing scenarios for the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next several years, with the intention of providing information to facilitate planning for multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves. We estimate the sensitivity of the network to transient gravitational-wave signals for the third (O3), fourth (O4) and fifth observing (O5) runs, including the planned upgrades of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. We study the capability of the network to determine the sky location of the source for gravitational-wave signals from the inspiral of binary systems of compact objects, that is binary neutron star, neutron star–black hole, and binary black hole systems. The ability to localize the sources is given as a sky-area probability, luminosity distance, and comoving volume. The median sky localization area (90% credible region) is expected to be a few hundreds of square degrees for all types of binary systems during O3 with the Advanced LIGO and Virgo (HLV) network. The median sky localization area will improve to a few tens of square degrees during O4 with the Advanced LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (HLVK) network. During O3, the median localization volume (90% credible region) is expected to be on the order of $$10^{5}, 10^{6}, 10^{7}\mathrm {\ Mpc}^3$$ 10 5 , 10 6 , 10 7 Mpc 3 for binary neutron star, neutron star–black hole, and binary black hole systems, respectively. The localization volume in O4 is expected to be about a factor two smaller than in O3. We predict a detection count of $$1^{+12}_{-1}$$ 1 - 1 + 12 ($$10^{+52}_{-10}$$ 10 - 10 + 52 ) for binary neutron star mergers, of $$0^{+19}_{-0}$$ 0 - 0 + 19 ($$1^{+91}_{-1}$$ 1 - 1 + 91 ) for neutron star–black hole mergers, and $$17^{+22}_{-11}$$ 17 - 11 + 22 ($$79^{+89}_{-44}$$ 79 - 44 + 89 ) for binary black hole mergers in a one-calendar-year observing run of the HLV network during O3 (HLVK network during O4). We evaluate sensitivity and localization expectations for unmodeled signal searches, including the search for intermediate mass black hole binary mergers.


2000 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 57-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
INDRANIL CHATTOPADHYAY ◽  
SANDIP K. CHAKRABARTI

Winds and outflows form in active galaxies and in binary systems which are known to harbour compact objects such as black holes. Matter starting subsonically from a disc must be accelerated very close to the black hole in order to reach a velocity comparable to the velocity of light, which is actually observed. In the absence of magnetic fields, winds forming in inner regions of accretion discs could primarily be accelerated by radiations emitted from this region where centrifugal force is important. We study critical point behaviour of outflows in presence of this radiative acceleration. We show that the momentum deposition term changes the character of the solution drastically depending on the magnitude and the location of the deposition. We discuss the implications of these solutions in detail. Particularly important is the fact that matter were found to be pushed to infinity, even when they were originally bound energetically. We perform numerical simulations by smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and show that these new solutions are stable.


Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Barausse

The recent detections of gravitational waves from binary systems of black holes are in remarkable agreement with the predictions of General Relativity. In this pedagogical mini-review, I go through the physics of the different phases of the evolution of black hole binary systems, providing a qualitative physical interpretation of each one of them. I also briefly describe how these phases would be modified if gravitation were described by a theory extending or deforming General Relativity, or if the binary components turned out to be more exotic compact objects than black holes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 2041011
Author(s):  
Victor I. Afonso

We discuss exact scalar field solutions describing gravitating compact objects in the Eddington-inspired Born–Infeld (EiBI) gravity, a member of the class of (metric-affine formulated) Ricci-based gravity (RBG) theories. We include a detailed account of the RBGs/GR correspondence exploited to analytically solve the field equations. The single parameter [Formula: see text] of the EiBI model defines two branches for the solution. The [Formula: see text] branch may be described as a “shell with no interior”, and constitutes an ill-defined, geodesically incomplete spacetime. The more interesting [Formula: see text] branch admits the interpretation of a “wormhole membrane”, an exotic horizonless compact object with the ability to transfer particles and light from any point on its surface (located slightly below the would-be Schwarzschild radius) to its antipodal point, in a vanishing fraction of proper time. This is a single example illustrating how the structural modifications introduced by the metric-affine formulation may lead to significant departures from General relativity (GR) even at astrophysically relevant scales, giving rise to physically plausible objects radically different from those we are used to think of in the metric approach, and that could act as a black hole mimickers whose shadows might present distinguishable signals.


Author(s):  
Michele Maggiore

A comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves and their role in astrophysics and cosmology. The part on astrophysical sources of gravitational waves includes chapters on GWs from supernovae, neutron stars (neutron star normal modes, CFS instability, r-modes), black-hole perturbation theory (Regge-Wheeler and Zerilli equations, Teukoslky equation for rotating BHs, quasi-normal modes) coalescing compact binaries (effective one-body formalism, numerical relativity), discovery of gravitational waves at the advanced LIGO interferometers (discoveries of GW150914, GW151226, tests of general relativity, astrophysical implications), supermassive black holes (supermassive black-hole binaries, EMRI, relevance for LISA and pulsar timing arrays). The part on gravitational waves and cosmology include discussions of FRW cosmology, cosmological perturbation theory (helicity decomposition, scalar and tensor perturbations, Bardeen variables, power spectra, transfer functions for scalar and tensor modes), the effects of GWs on the Cosmic Microwave Background (ISW effect, CMB polarization, E and B modes), inflation (amplification of vacuum fluctuations, quantum fields in curved space, generation of scalar and tensor perturbations, Mukhanov-Sasaki equation,reheating, preheating), stochastic backgrounds of cosmological origin (phase transitions, cosmic strings, alternatives to inflation, bounds on primordial GWs) and search of stochastic backgrounds with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA).


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Goldberger ◽  
Ira Z. Rothstein

Abstract Using Effective Field Theory (EFT) methods, we compute the effects of horizon dissipation on the gravitational interactions of relativistic binary black hole systems. We assume that the dynamics is perturbative, i.e it admits an expansion in powers of Newton’s constant (post-Minkowskian, or PM, approximation). As applications, we compute corrections to the scattering angle in a black hole collision due to dissipative effects to leading PM order, as well as the post-Newtonian (PN) corrections to the equations of motion of binary black holes in non-relativistic orbits, which represents the leading order finite size effect in the equations of motion. The methods developed here are also applicable to the case of more general compact objects, eg. neutron stars, where the magnitude of the dissipative effects depends on non-gravitational physics (e.g, the equation of state for nuclear matter).


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Panos Betzios ◽  
Nava Gaddam ◽  
Olga Papadoulaki

Abstract We describe a unitary scattering process, as observed from spatial infinity, of massless scalar particles on an asymptotically flat Schwarzschild black hole background. In order to do so, we split the problem in two different regimes governing the dynamics of the scattering process. The first describes the evolution of the modes in the region away from the horizon and can be analysed in terms of the effective Regge-Wheeler potential. In the near horizon region, where the Regge-Wheeler potential becomes insignificant, the WKB geometric optics approximation of Hawking’s is replaced by the near-horizon gravitational scattering matrix that captures non-perturbative soft graviton exchanges near the horizon. We perform an appropriate matching for the scattering solutions of these two dynamical problems and compute the resulting Bogoliubov relations, that combines both dynamics. This allows us to formulate an S-matrix for the scattering process that is manifestly unitary. We discuss the analogue of the (quasi)-normal modes in this setup and the emergence of gravitational echoes that follow an original burst of radiation as the excited black hole relaxes to equilibrium.


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