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Mind the Resonances: Final stages of accretion into bumpy black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-08-26 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

In this article we discuss a possible way of testing the Kerr black hole hypothesis by taking advantage of phenomena correlated with chaotic motion in the final stages of an accretion disk around a bumpy black hole. We anticipate that these phenomena should have an imprint in the electromagnetic spectrum coming from the accretion disk.

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@article{arxiv.1304.7612,
  title  = {Mind the Resonances: Final stages of accretion into bumpy black holes},
  author = {Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos and George Contopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7612},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures, To appear in the proceedings of the conference, NEB 15 - Recent Developments in Gravity - 20-23 June 2012, Chania, Greece