{"title":"Analytic solutions of the Teukolsky equation for massless perturbations of any spin in de Sitter background","authors":"Yao-Z Zhang","doi":"10.1063/5.0015848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0015848","url":null,"abstract":"We present analytic solutions to the Teukolsky equation for massless perturbations of any spin in the 4-dimensional de Sitter background. The angular part of the equation fixes the separation constant to a discrete set and its solution is given by hypergeometric polynomials. For the radial part, we derive analytic power series solution which is regular at the poles and determine a transcendental function whose zeros give the characteristic values of the wave frequency. We study the existence of explicit polynomial solutions to the radial equation and obtain two classes of singular closed-form solutions, one with discrete wave frequencies and the other with continuous frequency spectra.","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84781793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Green, C. Hoy, S. Fairhurst, M. Hannam, F. Pannarale, Cory M. Thomas
{"title":"Identifying when precession can be measured in gravitational waveforms","authors":"R. Green, C. Hoy, S. Fairhurst, M. Hannam, F. Pannarale, Cory M. Thomas","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevD.103.124023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.124023","url":null,"abstract":"In binary-black-hole systems where the black-hole spins are misaligned with the orbital angular momentum, precession effects leave characteristic modulations in the emitted gravitational waveform. Here, we investigate where in the parameter space we will be able to accurately identify precession, for likely observations over coming LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing runs. Despite the large number of parameters that characterise a precessing binary, we perform a large scale systematic study to identify the impact of each source parameter on the measurement of precession. We simulate a fiducial binary at moderate mass-ratio, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and spins, such that precession will be clearly identifiable, then successively vary each parameter while holding the remaining parameters fixed. As expected, evidence for precession increases with signal-to noise-ratio (SNR), higher in-plane spins, more unequal component masses, and higher inclination, but our study provides a quantitative illustration of each of these effects, and informs our intuition on parameter dependencies that have not yet been studied in detail, for example, the effect of varying the relative strength of the two polarisations, the total mass, and the aligned-spin components. We also measure the \"precession SNR\" $rho_p$, which was introduced in Refs[1,2] to quantify the signal power associated with precession. By comparing $rho_p$ with both Bayes factors and the recovered posterior distributions, we find it is a reliable metric for measurability that accurately predicts when the detected signal contains evidence for precession.","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86340904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One-to-one correspondence between entanglement mechanics and black hole thermodynamics","authors":"S. Chandran, S. Shankaranarayanan","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.102.125025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.125025","url":null,"abstract":"We establish a one-to-one mapping between entanglement entropy, energy, and temperature (quantum entanglement mechanics) with black hole entropy, Komar energy, and Hawking temperature, respectively. We show this explicitly for 4-D spherically symmetric asymptotically flat and non-flat space-times with single and multiple horizons. We exploit an inherent scaling symmetry of entanglement entropy and identify scaling transformations that generate an infinite number of systems with the same entanglement entropy, distinguished only by their respective energies and temperatures. We show that this scaling symmetry is present in most well-known systems starting from the two-coupled harmonic oscillator to quantum scalar fields in spherically symmetric space-time. The scaling symmetry allows us to identify the cause of divergence of entanglement entropy to the generation of (near) zero-modes in the systems. We systematically isolate the zero-mode contributions using suitable boundary conditions. We show that the entanglement entropy and energy of quantum scalar field scale differently in space-times with horizons and flat space-time. The relation $E=2TS$, in analogy with the horizon's thermodynamic structure, is also found to be universally satisfied in the entanglement picture. We then show that there exists a one-to-one correspondence leading to the Smarr-formula of black hole thermodynamics for asymptotically flat and non-flat space-times.","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90968429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General teleparallel modifications of Schwarzschild geometry","authors":"S. Bahamonde, C. Pfeifer","doi":"10.1142/S0219887821400016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219887821400016","url":null,"abstract":"Teleparallel theories of gravity are described in terms of the tetrad of a metric and a flat connection with torsion. In this paper, we study spherical symmetry in a modified teleparallel theory of gravity which is based on an arbitrary function of the five possible scalars constructed from the irreducible parts of torsion. This theory is a generalisation of the so-called New General Relativity theory. We find that only two scalars are different to zero in spherical symmetry and we solve the corresponding field equations analytically for conformal Teleparallel gravity, and then perturbatively around Schwarzschild geometry for the general perturbative theory around GR. Finally we compute phenomenological effects from the perturbed solutions such as the photon sphere, perihelion shift, Shapiro delay and the light deflection. We find their correspondent correction to the standard GR contribution and their dependence on the three model parameters.","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91436866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Compatibility of nonlinear electrodynamics models with Robinson-Trautman geometry","authors":"T. Tahamtan","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVD.103.064052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.103.064052","url":null,"abstract":"Robinson--Trautman solutions with Nonlinear Electrodynamics are investigated for both L(F ) and L(F, G) Lagrangians and presence of electric and magnetic charges as well as electromagnetic radiation is assumed. Particular interest is devoted to models representing regular black holes for spherically symmetric situations. The results show clear uniqueness of Maxwell electrodynamics with respect to compatibility with Robinson--Trautman class. Additionally, regular black hole models are clearly not suited to this class while famous Born--Infeld model illustrates important distinction between L(F ) and L(F, G) for obtained electric field when magnetic field is nontrivial.","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89242787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Costantino Pacilio, Massimo Vaglio, A. Maselli, P. Pani
{"title":"Gravitational-wave detectors as particle-physics laboratories: Constraining scalar interactions with a coherent inspiral model of boson-star binaries","authors":"Costantino Pacilio, Massimo Vaglio, A. Maselli, P. Pani","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.102.083002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.083002","url":null,"abstract":"Gravitational-wave (GW) detections of binary neutron star coalescences play a crucial role to constrain the microscopic interaction of matter at ultrahigh density. Similarly, if boson stars exist in the universe their coalescence can be used to constrain the fundamental coupling constants of a scalar field theory. We develop the first coherent waveform model for the inspiral of boson stars with quartic interactions. The waveform includes coherently spin-induced quadrupolar and tidal-deformability contributions in terms of the masses and spins of the binary and of a single coupling constant of the theory. We show that future instruments such as the Einstein Telescope and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna can provide strong complementary bounds on bosonic self-interactions, while the constraining power of current detectors is marginal.","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87047055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quasinormal modes of the generalized Ayón-Beato–García black hole in scalar-tensor-vector gravity","authors":"Xin-Chang Cai, Y. Miao","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.102.084061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.084061","url":null,"abstract":"We obtain the solution of a generalized ABG STVG black hole with the nonlinear tensor field $B_{mu nu }$ in the scalar-tensor-vector gravity. This black hole is endowed with four parameters, the black hole mass $M$, the parameter $alpha$ associated with the STVG theory, and the two parameters $lambda$ and $beta$ that are related to the dipole and quadrupole moments of the nonlinear tensor field, respectively. By analyzing the characteristics of the black hole, we find that the generalized ABG STVG black hole is regular when $lambda geqslant 3$ and $beta geqslant 4$, and we study the effects of the parameters $alpha$, $lambda$ and $beta$ on the black hole horizon. We calculate the quasinormal mode frequencies of the odd parity gravitational perturbation for the generalized ABG STVG black hole by using the 6th order WKB approximation method and simultaneously by the null geodesic method at the eikonal limit. The results show that the increase of the parameters $alpha$ and $lambda$ makes the gravitational waves decay slowly, while the increase of the parameter $beta$ makes the gravitational waves decay fast at first and then slowly. In addition, we verify that the improved correspondence between the real part of quasinormal frequencies at the eikonal limit and the shadow radius is valid for the generalized ABG STVG black hole.","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74391861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radiative contribution to classical gravitational scattering at the third order in \u0000G","authors":"T. Damour","doi":"10.1103/physrevd.102.124008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.102.124008","url":null,"abstract":"Working within the post-Minkowskian approach to General Relativity, we prove that the radiation-reaction to the emission of gravitational waves during the large-impact-parameter scattering of two (classical) point masses modifies the conservative scattering angle by an additional contribution of order $G^3$ which involves a high-energy (or massless) logarithmic divergence of opposite sign to the one contained in the third-post-Minkowskian result of Bern et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. {bf 122}, 201603 (2019)]. The high-energy limit of the resulting radiation-reaction-corrected (classical) scattering angle is finite, and is found to agree with the one following from the (quantum) eikonal-phase result of Amati, Ciafaloni and Veneziano [ Nucl. Phys. B {bf 347}, 550 (1990)].","PeriodicalId":8455,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74694379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}