SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES OR BOSON STARS? HAIR COUNTING WITH GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS

DOI10.1142/S0218271806009637MaRDI QIDQ3434359zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso

Publication date 25 April 2007

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605101

zbMATH Keywords

black holeboson starsgravitational wave sourcesgravitational wavesno-hair theoremquasinormal modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: The evidence for supermassive Kerr black holes in galactic centers is strong and growing, but only the detection of gravitational waves will convincingly rule out other possibilities to explain the observations. The Kerr spacetime is completely specified by the first two multipole moments: mass and angular momentum. This is usually referred to as the ``no-hair theorem, but it is really a ``two-hair theorem. If general relativity is the correct theory of gravity, the most plausible alternative to a supermassive Kerr black hole is a rotating boson star. Numerical calculations indicate that the spacetime of rotating boson stars is determined by the first three multipole moments (``three-hair theorem). LISA could accurately measure the oscillation frequencies of these supermassive objects. We propose to use these measurements to ``count their hair, unambiguously determining their nature and properties.

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