The spinning Kerr-black-hole-mirror bomb: a lower bound on the radius of the reflecting mirror

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.08.045zbMATH Open1366.83045arXiv1612.02819OpenAlexW2518045184MaRDI QIDQ2364067FDOQ2364067

Authors: Shahar Hod 

Publication date: 17 July 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The intriguing superradiant amplification phenomenon allows an orbiting scalar field to extract rotational energy from a spinning Kerr black hole. Interestingly, the energy extraction rate can grow exponentially in time if the black-hole-field system is placed inside a reflecting mirror which prevents the field from radiating its energy to infinity. This composed Kerr-black-hole-scalar-field-mirror system, first designed by Press and Teukolsky, has attracted the attention of physicists over the last four decades. Previous numerical studies of this spinning {it black-hole bomb} have revealed the interesting fact that the superradiant instability shuts down if the reflecting mirror is placed too close to the black-hole horizon. In the present study we use analytical techniques to explore the superradiant instability regime of this composed Kerr-black-hole-linearized-scalar-field-mirror system. In particular, it is proved that the lower bound $r_{extm}over{r}_{+}>1over2Big(sqrt1+8Mover{r}_{-}-1Big)$ provides a necessary condition for the development of the exponentially growing superradiant instabilities in this composed physical system, where $r_{extm}$ is the radius of the confining mirror and $r_{pm}$ are the horizon radii of the spinning Kerr black hole. We further show that, in the linearized regime, this {it analytically} derived lower bound on the radius of the confining mirror agrees with direct {it numerical} computations of the superradiant instability spectrum which characterizes the spinning black-hole-mirror bomb.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02819

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Black holes (83C57)

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