How pure is the tail of gravitational collapse?

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/2/028001zbMATH Open1158.83315arXiv0902.0237OpenAlexW3125266063MaRDI QIDQ3603189FDOQ3603189

Authors: Shahar Hod 

Publication date: 16 February 2009

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

Abstract: Waves propagating in a curved spacetime develop tails. In particular, it is well established that the late-time dynamics of gravitational collapse is dominated by a power-law decaying tail of the form $M{t}^{-(2l+3)}$, where $M$ is the black-hole mass. It should be emphasized, however, that in a typical evolution scenario there is a considerable time window in which the signal is no longer dominated by the black-hole quasinormal modes, but the leading order power-law tail has not yet taken over. Higher-order terms may have a considerable contribution to the signal at these intermediate times. It is therefore of interest to analyze these higher-order corrections to the leading-order power-law behavior. We show that the higher-order contamination terms die off at late times as $M^2{t}^{-4}ln(t/M)$ for spherical perturbations, and as $M^2{t}^{-(2l+4)}l{n}^2(t/M)$ for non-spherical $(leq0)$ perturbations. These results imply that the leading-order power-law tail becomes "pure" (namely, with less than 1% contamination) only at extremely late times of the order of $10^{4}M$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0237

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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