Thin accretion disk signatures of slowly rotating black holes in Hořava gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/16/165001zbMATH Open1225.83066arXiv1009.1958OpenAlexW3103560698MaRDI QIDQ3173069FDOQ3173069

Tiberiu Harko, Francisco S. N. Lobo, Zoltan Kovacs

Publication date: 10 October 2011

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the present work, we consider the possibility of observationally testing Hov{r}ava gravity by using the accretion disk properties around slowly rotating black holes of the Kehagias-Sfetsos solution in asymptotically flat spacetimes. The energy flux, temperature distribution, the emission spectrum as well as the energy conversion efficiency are obtained, and compared to the standard slowly rotating general relativistic Kerr solution. Comparing the mass accretion in a slowly rotating Kehagias-Sfetsos geometry in Hov{r}ava gravity with the one of a slowly rotating Kerr black hole, we verify that the intensity of the flux emerging from the disk surface is greater for the slowly rotating Kehagias-Sfetsos solution than for rotating black holes with the same geometrical mass and accretion rate. We also present the conversion efficiency of the accreting mass into radiation, and show that the rotating Kehagias-Sfetsos solution provides a much more efficient engine for the transformation of the accreting mass into radiation than the Kerr black holes. Thus, distinct signatures appear in the electromagnetic spectrum, leading to the possibility of directly testing Hov{r}ava gravity models by using astrophysical observations of the emission spectra from accretion disks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1958

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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