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Gravitational Waves and Possible Fast Radio Bursts from Axion Clumps

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-11-10 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The axion objects such as axion mini-clusters and axion clouds around spinning black holes induce parametric resonances of electromagnetic waves through the axion-photon interaction. In particular, it has been known that the resonances from the axion with the mass around 10610^{-6}eV may explain the observed fast radio bursts (FRBs). Here we argue that similar bursts of high frequency gravitational waves, which we call the fast gravitational wave bursts (FGBs), are generated from axion clumps with the presence of gravitational Chern-Simons (CS) coupling. The typical frequency is half of the axion mass, which in general can range from kHz to GHz. We also discuss the secondary gravitational wave production associated with FRB, as well as the possible host objects of the axion clouds, such as primordial black holes with typical masses around 105M10^{-5}M_{\odot}. Future detections of FGBs together with the observed FRBs are expected to provide more evidence for the axion.

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@article{arxiv.2003.10527,
  title  = {Gravitational Waves and Possible Fast Radio Bursts from Axion Clumps},
  author = {Sichun Sun and Yun-Long Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10527},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures. v2: references updated. v2: 10 pages, 9 figures, updated discussion on the relation between different CS couplings at one-loop level. Matching with the accepted version