Tidal acceleration of black holes and superradiance
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Publication:4920134
DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/4/045011zbMATH Open1266.83104arXiv1205.3184OpenAlexW3099531245MaRDI QIDQ4920134FDOQ4920134
Authors: Vitor Cardoso, Paolo Pani 
Publication date: 16 May 2013
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Tidal effects have long ago locked the Moon in synchronous rotation with the Earth and progressively increase the Earth-Moon distance. This "tidal acceleration" hinges on dissipation. Binaries containing black holes may also be tidally accelerated, dissipation being caused by the event horizon - a flexible, viscous one-way membrane. In fact, this process is known for many years under a different guise: superradiance. In General Relativity, tidal acceleration is obscured by gravitational-wave emission. However, when coupling to light scalar degrees of freedom is allowed, an induced dipole moment produces a "polarization acceleration", which might be orders of magnitude stronger than tidal quadrupolar effects. Consequences for optical and gravitational-wave observations are intriguing and it is not impossible that imprints of such mechanism have already been observed.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3184
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