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Near-horizon microstructure and superradiant instability of black holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-04-06 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Ultralight bosons, as important candidates of dark matter, can condense around spinning black holes (BHs) to form long-lived ``boson clouds'' due to superradiance instability. The boson-BH system can be observed through gravitational wave detection and may become a new window to find traces of ultralight bosons. In this letter we explore the effects on the superradiant instability of BHs from the near-horizon microstructure. By introducing the reflection parameter near a BH horizon, we derived analytical results on the corrections to both energy levels of bosonic cloud and its characteristic frequencies of superradiance instability. Our results imply that the evolution of a boson-BH system and gravitational waves it emits would be influenced by the near-horizon physics of a BH.

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@article{arxiv.2109.03376,
  title  = {Near-horizon microstructure and superradiant instability of black holes},
  author = {Rong-Zhen Guo and Chen Yuan and Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.03376},
  year   = {2022}
}

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