Black Hole-Boson Star Binaries: Gravitational Wave Signals and Tidal Disruption

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Autori principali: Marks, Gareth Arturo, Staelens, Seppe J., Sperhake, Ulrich
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author Marks, Gareth Arturo
Staelens, Seppe J.
Sperhake, Ulrich
author_facet Marks, Gareth Arturo
Staelens, Seppe J.
Sperhake, Ulrich
contents We present a detailed, fully nonlinear study of binary systems involving one black hole and one boson star, considering the effects of both a quartic self-interaction and a solitonic potential for the scalar field. First, we show the importance of using initial data for which the boson star is in an equilibrated configuration to obtain accurate gravitational waveforms, and discuss methods to further improve constraint violations in the initial data. We then present a series of head-on collisions, showing that even in this simplified scenario the radiative efficiency varies significantly with the scalar potential chosen. In addition to this, we present a preliminary study of inspiral configurations, showing that an appropriate scalar self-interaction can suppress tidal disruption. We comment throughout on implications for attempts to build model-agnostic waveform template banks for exotic compact objects.
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spellingShingle Black Hole-Boson Star Binaries: Gravitational Wave Signals and Tidal Disruption
Marks, Gareth Arturo
Staelens, Seppe J.
Sperhake, Ulrich
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We present a detailed, fully nonlinear study of binary systems involving one black hole and one boson star, considering the effects of both a quartic self-interaction and a solitonic potential for the scalar field. First, we show the importance of using initial data for which the boson star is in an equilibrated configuration to obtain accurate gravitational waveforms, and discuss methods to further improve constraint violations in the initial data. We then present a series of head-on collisions, showing that even in this simplified scenario the radiative efficiency varies significantly with the scalar potential chosen. In addition to this, we present a preliminary study of inspiral configurations, showing that an appropriate scalar self-interaction can suppress tidal disruption. We comment throughout on implications for attempts to build model-agnostic waveform template banks for exotic compact objects.
title Black Hole-Boson Star Binaries: Gravitational Wave Signals and Tidal Disruption
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06312