scholarly journals Testing the Kerr Black Hole Hypothesis with GRS 1716-249 by Combining the Continuum Fitting and the Iron-line Methods

2022 ◽  
Vol 924 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Zuobin Zhang ◽  
Honghui Liu ◽  
Askar B. Abdikamalov ◽  
Dimitry Ayzenberg ◽  
Cosimo Bambi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Thermal Component ◽  
Fundamental Physics ◽  
Iron Line ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Hole Binary ◽  
The Continuum

Abstract The continuum-fitting and the iron-line methods are currently the two leading techniques for measuring the spins of accreting black holes. In the past few years, these two methods have been developed for testing fundamental physics. In the present work, we employ state-of-the-art models to test black holes through the continuum-fitting and the iron-line methods and we analyze three NuSTAR observations of the black hole binary GRS 1716-249 during its outburst in 2016–2017. In these three observations, the source was in a hard-intermediate state and the spectra show both a strong thermal component and prominent relativistic reflection features. Our analysis confirms the Kerr nature of the black hole in GRS 1716-249 and provides quite stringent constraints on possible deviations from the predictions of general relativity.

scholarly journals Testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis with the continuum-fitting and the iron line methods: the case of GRS 1915+105

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (01) ◽  
pp. 019
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Tripathi ◽  
Askar B. Abdikamalov ◽  
Dimitry Ayzenberg ◽  
Cosimo Bambi ◽  
Victoria Grinberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Deformation Parameter ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Stellar Mass ◽  
Kerr Metric ◽  
Iron Line ◽  
Strong Gravity ◽  
The Continuum

Abstract The continuum-fitting and the iron line methods are currently the two leading techniques for probing the strong gravity region around accreting black holes. In the present work, we test the Kerr black hole hypothesis with the stellar-mass black hole in GRS 1915+105 by analyzing five disk-dominated RXTE spectra and one reflection-dominated Suzaku spectrum. The combination of the constraints from the continuum-fitting and the iron line methods has the potential to provide more stringent tests of the Kerr metric. Our constraint on the Johannsen deformation parameter α13 is -0.15 < α13 < 0.14 at 3σ, where the Kerr metric is recovered when α13 = 0.

scholarly journals Thermal spectra of thin accretion discs of finite thickness around Kerr black holes

2020 ◽  
Vol 496 (1) ◽  
pp. 497-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menglei Zhou ◽  
Askar B Abdikamalov ◽  
Dimitry Ayzenberg ◽  
Cosimo Bambi ◽  
Victoria Grinberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Finite Thickness ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Accretion Discs ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
New Model ◽  
Fitting Method ◽  
Black Hole Binary ◽  
The Difference

ABSTRACT The analysis of the thermal spectrum of geometrically thin and optically thick accretion discs of black holes, the so-called continuum-fitting method, is one of the leading techniques for measuring black hole spins. Current models normally approximate the disc as infinitesimally thin, while in reality the disc thickness is finite and increases as the black hole mass accretion rate increases. Here we present an XSPEC model to calculate the multitemperature blackbody spectrum of a thin accretion disc of finite thickness around a Kerr black hole. We test our new model with an RXTE observation of the black hole binary GRS 1915+105. We find that the spin value inferred with the new model is slightly higher than the spin value obtained with a model with an infinitesimally thin disc, but the difference is small and the effect is currently subdominant with respect to other sources of uncertainties in the final spin measurement.

scholarly journals TESTING THE KERR BLACK HOLE HYPOTHESIS

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (33) ◽  
pp. 2453-2468 ◽  
Author(s):  
COSIMO BAMBI
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Gravitational Collapse ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
The State ◽  
Kerr Geometry

It is thought that the final product of the gravitational collapse is a Kerr black hole and astronomers have discovered several good astrophysical candidates. While there are some indirect evidences suggesting that the latter have an event horizon, and therefore that they are black holes, a proof that the spacetime around these objects is described by the Kerr geometry is still lacking. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the possibility of testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis with present and future experiments. In this paper, I briefly review the state-of-the-art of the field, focusing on some recent results and works in progress.

scholarly journals Statistical Properties of Kerr BH Flywheel Model of QSOs/AGNs

2000 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 417-418
Author(s):  
S. Nitta
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Initial Mass Function ◽  
Number Density ◽  
Disk System ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Density Population

The aim of this work is to demonstrate the properties of the magnetospheric model around Kerr black holes, so-called the “flywheel” (rotation powered) model. The fly-wheel engine of the BH accretion disk system is applied to the statistics of QSOs/AGNs. Nitta, Takahashi, & Tomimatsu clarified the individual evolution of the Kerr black-hole fly-wheel engine, which is parameterized by black-hole mass, initial Kerr parameter, magnetic field near the horizon, and a dimensionless small parameter. We impose a statistical model for the initial mass function of an ensemble of black holes using the Press-Schechter formalism. With the help of additional assumptions, we can discuss the evolution of the luminosity function and the spatial number density (population) of QSOs/AGNs. The result explains well the decrease of very bright QSOs and decrease of population after z ~ 2.

Bound orbits around modified Hayward black holes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Gao ◽  
Xue-Mei Deng
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Gravitational Field ◽  
Periodic Orbits ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Periodic Oscillations ◽  
Test Particles ◽  
Spin Parameter ◽  
Bound Orbits

The neutral time-like particle’s bound orbits around modified Hayward black holes have been investigated. We find that both in the marginally bound orbits (MBO) and the innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO), the test particle’s radius and its angular momentum are all more sensitive to one of the parameters [Formula: see text]. Especially, modified Hayward black holes with [Formula: see text] could mimic the same ISCO radius around the Kerr black hole with the spin parameter up to [Formula: see text]. Small [Formula: see text] could mimic the ISCO of small-spinning test particles around Schwarzschild black holes. Meanwhile, rational (periodic) orbits around modified Hayward black holes have also been studied. The epicyclic frequencies of the quasi-circular motion around modified Hayward black holes are calculated and discussed with respect to the observed Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) frequencies. Our results show that rational orbits around modified Hayward black holes have different values of the energy from the ones of Schwarzschild black holes. The epicyclic frequencies in modified Hayward black holes have different frequencies from Schwarzschild and Kerr ones. These might provide hints for distinguishing modified Hayward black holes from Schwarzschild and Kerr ones by using the dynamics of time-like particles around the strong gravitational field.

scholarly journals Prospects for the Discovery of Black Hole Binaries without Mass Accretion with Gaia

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S324) ◽  
pp. 41-42
Author(s):  
Norita Kawanaka ◽  
Masaki Yamaguchi ◽  
Tsvi Piran ◽  
Tomasz Bulik
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Orbital Period ◽  
Proper Motion ◽  
Binary Systems ◽  
Evolution Model ◽  
Black Hole Binaries ◽  
Black Hole Binary ◽  
Binary Evolution

AbstractWe study the prospect for Gaia to detect black hole binary systems without the mass transfer from their companion stars. Gaia will be able to discover Galactic black holes without mass accretion by detecting the proper motion of their companion stars. We evaluate the number of such black hole binaries which have the orbital period short enough to be detected by Gaia during its operation, taking into account the binary evolution model.

scholarly journals ON BLACK HOLE CREATION IN PLANCKIAN ENERGY SCATTERING

1996 ◽  
Vol 05 (06) ◽  
pp. 707-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. YA. AREF’EVA ◽  
I.V. VOLOVICH ◽  
K.S. VISWANATHAN
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Black Hole Solution ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Energy Scattering ◽  
Light Particles ◽  
Black Hole Creation ◽  
Plane Gravitational Waves

In a series of papers Amati, Ciafaloni and Veneziano and ’t Hooft conjectured that black holes occur in the collision of two light particles at planckian energies. In this talk based on [10] we discuss a possible scenario for such a process by using the Chandrasekhar-Ferrari-Xanthopoulos duality between the Kerr black hole solution and colliding plane gravitational waves.

scholarly journals SEMICLASSICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE CARDY–VERLINDE FORMULA OF KERR BLACK HOLES

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 2047-2053 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. SETARE
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Gravitational Effect ◽  
The Self ◽  
Entropy Formula ◽  
Verlinde Formula ◽  
Kerr Black Holes

In this paper, we compute the corrections to the Cardy–Verlinde formula of four-dimensional Kerr black hole. These corrections are considered within the context of KKW analysis and arise as a result of the self-gravitational effect. Then we show that one can take into account the semiclassical corrections of the Cardy–Verlinde entropy formula by only redefining the Virasoro operator L0 and the central charge c.

scholarly journals Global embeddings and hydrodynamic properties of Kerr black hole

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (35) ◽  
pp. 1650204
Author(s):  
Soon-Tae Hong
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Equatorial Plane ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Kerr Spacetime ◽  
Stable Circular Orbit ◽  
Massive Particles ◽  
Flat Embedding ◽  
Bound Orbits ◽  
The Impact

In the presence of a rotating Kerr black hole, we investigate hydrodynamics of the massive particles and massless photons to construct relations among number density, pressure and internal energy density of the massive particles and photons around the rotating Kerr black hole and to study an accretion onto the black hole. On equatorial plane of the Kerr black hole, we investigate the bound orbits of the massive particles and photons around the black hole to produce their radial, azimuthal and precession frequencies. With these frequencies, we study the black holes GRO J1655-40 and 4U 1543-47 to explicitly obtain the radial, azimuthal and precession frequencies of the massive particles in the flow of perfect fluid. We next consider the massive particles in the stable circular orbit of radius of 1.0 ly around the supernovas SN 1979C, SN 1987A and SN 2213-1745 in the Kerr curved spacetime, and around the potential supermassive Schwarzschild black holes M87, NGC 3115, NGC 4594, NGC 3377, NGC 4258, M31, M32 and Galatic center, to estimate their radial and azimuthal frequencies, which are shown to be the same results as those in no precession motion. The photon unstable orbit is also discussed in terms of the impact parameter of the photon trajectory. Finally, on the equatorial plane of the Kerr black hole, we construct the global flat embedding structures possessing (9 + 3) dimensionalities outside and inside the event horizon of the rotating Kerr black hole. Moreover, on the plane, we investigate the warp products of the Kerr spacetime.

scholarly journals AREA SPECTRUM OF KERR AND EXTREMAL KERR BLACK HOLES FROM QUASINORMAL MODES

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (25) ◽  
pp. 1923-1932 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD R. SETARE ◽  
ELIAS C. VAGENAS
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quasinormal Modes ◽  
Kerr Black Hole ◽  
Area Spectrum ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hole Area ◽  
Newman Black Hole ◽  
Discrete Area ◽  
Kerr Black Holes

Motivated by the recent interest in quantization of black hole area spectrum, we consider the area spectrum of Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. Based on the proposal by Bekenstein and others that the black hole area spectrum is discrete and equally spaced, we implement Kunstatter's method to derive the area spectrum for the Kerr and extremal Kerr black holes. The real part of the quasinormal frequencies of Kerr black hole used for this computation is of the form mΩ where Ω is the angular velocity of the black hole horizon. The resulting spectrum is discrete but not as expected uniformly spaced. Thus, we infer that the function describing the real part of quasinormal frequencies of Kerr black hole is not the correct one. This conclusion is in agreement with the numerical results for the highly damped quasinormal modes of Kerr black hole recently presented by Berti, Cardoso and Yoshida. On the contrary, extremal Kerr black hole is shown to have a discrete area spectrum which in addition is evenly spaced. The area spacing derived in our analysis for the extremal Kerr black hole area spectrum is not proportional to ln 3. Therefore, it does not give support to Hod's statement that the area spectrum [Formula: see text] should be valid for a generic Kerr–Newman black hole.

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