Quasi-bound states of massive scalar fields in the Kerr black-hole spacetime: beyond the hydrogenic approximation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.07.071zbMATH Open1364.83021arXiv1510.05649OpenAlexW1867686091MaRDI QIDQ2396536FDOQ2396536

Shahar Hod

Publication date: 8 June 2017

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

Abstract: Rotating black holes can support quasi-stationary (unstable) bound-state resonances of massive scalar fields in their exterior regions. These spatially regular scalar configurations are characterized by instability timescales which are much longer than the timescale $M$ set by the geometric size (mass) of the central black hole. It is well-known that, in the small-mass limit $alphaequivMmull1$ (here $mu$ is the mass of the scalar field), these quasi-stationary scalar resonances are characterized by the familiar hydrogenic oscillation spectrum: $$, where the integer $$ is the principal quantum number of the bound-state resonance (here the integers $l=1,2,3,\mathrm{...}$ and $n=0,1,2,\mathrm{...}$ are the spheroidal harmonic index and the resonance parameter of the field mode, respectively). As it depends only on the principal resonance parameter $$, this small-mass ($alphall1$) hydrogenic spectrum is obviously degenerate. In this paper we go beyond the small-mass approximation and analyze the quasi-stationary bound-state resonances of massive scalar fields in rapidly-spinning Kerr black-hole spacetimes in the regime $alpha=O(1)$. In particular, we derive the non-hydrogenic (and, in general, non-degenerate) resonance oscillation spectrum $$, where $$ is the generalized principal quantum number of the quasi-stationary resonances. This analytically derived formula for the characteristic oscillation frequencies of the composed black-hole-massive-scalar-field system is shown to agree with direct numerical computations of the quasi-stationary bound-state resonances.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05649

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57)

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