Looking for extra dimensions in the observed quasi-periodic oscillations of black holes

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/09/037zbMATH Open1487.85007arXiv2105.06636OpenAlexW3160886488MaRDI QIDQ5061980FDOQ5061980

Authors: Indrani Banerjee, Sumanta Chakraborty, Soumitra Sengupta 

Publication date: 14 March 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quasi-periodic oscillations, often present in the power density spectrum of accretion disk around black holes, are useful probes for the understanding of gravitational interaction in the near-horizon regime of black holes. Since the presence of an extra spatial dimension modifies the near horizon geometry of black holes, it is expected that the study of these quasi-periodic oscillations may shed some light on the possible existence of these extra dimensions. Intriguingly, most of the extra dimensional models, which are of significant interest to the scientific community, predicts the existence of a tidal charge parameter in black hole spacetimes. This tidal charge parameter can have an overall negative sign and is a distinctive signature of the extra dimensions. Motivated by this, we have studied the quasi-periodic oscillations for a rotating braneworld black hole using the available theoretical models. Subsequently, we have used the observations of the quasi-periodic oscillations from available black hole sources, e.g., GRO J1655 -- 40, XTE J1550 -- 564, GRS 1915 + 105, H 1743 + 322 and Sgr A* and have compared them with the predictions from the relevant theoretical models, in order to estimate the tidal charge parameter. It turns out that among the 11 theoretical models considered here, 8 of them predict a negative value for the tidal charge parameter, while for the others negative values of the tidal charge parameter are also well within the 1-$sigma$ confidence interval.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.06636

zbMATH Keywords

modified gravityaccretionastrophysical black holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Discrete-time control/observation systems (93C55) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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