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Main Authors: Guo, Yin-Da, Jia, Nayun, Bao, Shou-Shan, Zhang, Hong, Zhang, Xin
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00767
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author Guo, Yin-Da
Jia, Nayun
Bao, Shou-Shan
Zhang, Hong
Zhang, Xin
author_facet Guo, Yin-Da
Jia, Nayun
Bao, Shou-Shan
Zhang, Hong
Zhang, Xin
contents Ultralight vectors can extract energy and angular momentum from a Kerr black hole (BH) due to superradiant instability, resulting in the formation of a BH-condensate system. In this work, we carefully investigate the evolution of this system numerically with multiple superradiant modes. Simple formulas are obtained to estimate important timescales, maximum masses of different modes, as well as the BH mass and spin at various times. Due to the coexistence of modes with small frequency differences, the BH-condensate system emits gravitational waves with a unique beat signature, which could be directly observed by current and projected interferometers. Besides, the current BH spin-mass data from the binary BH merger events already exclude the vector mass in the range $5\times 10^{-15}\ \mathrm{eV} <μ< 9\times 10^{-12}\ \mathrm{eV}$.
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spellingShingle Evolution and detection of vector superradiant instabilities
Guo, Yin-Da
Jia, Nayun
Bao, Shou-Shan
Zhang, Hong
Zhang, Xin
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Ultralight vectors can extract energy and angular momentum from a Kerr black hole (BH) due to superradiant instability, resulting in the formation of a BH-condensate system. In this work, we carefully investigate the evolution of this system numerically with multiple superradiant modes. Simple formulas are obtained to estimate important timescales, maximum masses of different modes, as well as the BH mass and spin at various times. Due to the coexistence of modes with small frequency differences, the BH-condensate system emits gravitational waves with a unique beat signature, which could be directly observed by current and projected interferometers. Besides, the current BH spin-mass data from the binary BH merger events already exclude the vector mass in the range $5\times 10^{-15}\ \mathrm{eV} <μ< 9\times 10^{-12}\ \mathrm{eV}$.
title Evolution and detection of vector superradiant instabilities
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00767