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Singularity-free black holes in conformal gravity: new observational constraints

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-03-10 v1

Abstract

We consider the family of singularity-free rotating black hole solutions in Einstein's conformal gravity found in Bambi, Modesto & Rachwal (2017) and we constrain the value of the conformal parameter LL from the analysis of a 30 ks NuSTAR observation of the stellar-mass black hole in GS 1354-645 during its outburst in 2015. Our new constraint is much stronger than that found in previous work. Here we obtain L/M<0.12L/M < 0.12 (99% confidence level, statistical uncertainty only).

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@article{arxiv.2003.03738,
  title  = {Singularity-free black holes in conformal gravity: new observational constraints},
  author = {Menglei Zhou and Askar B. Abdikamalov and Dimitry Ayzenberg and Cosimo Bambi and Leonardo Modesto and Sourabh Nampalliwar and Yerong Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.03738},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures