Reflecting boundary conditions in numerical relativity as a model for black hole echoes

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ACDE2FarXiv2301.05778OpenAlexW4380447041MaRDI QIDQ6046927FDOQ6046927

Authors: Niayesh Afshordi, Erik Schnetter 

Publication date: 6 September 2023

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

Abstract: Recently, there has been much interest in black hole echoes, based on the idea that there may be some mechanism (e.g., from quantum gravity) that waves/fields falling into a black hole could partially reflect off of an interface before reaching the horizon. There does not seem to be a good understanding of how to properly model a reflecting surface in numerical relativity, as the vast majority of the literature avoids the implementation of artificial boundaries, or applies transmitting boundary conditions. Here, we present a framework for reflecting a scalar field in a fully dynamical spherically symmetric spacetime, and implement it numerically. We study the evolution of a wave packet in this situation and its numerical convergence, including when the location of a reflecting boundary is very close to the horizon of a black hole. This opens the door to model exotic near-horizon physics within full numerical relativity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05778

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesscalar fieldnumerical relativityechoes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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