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Title: | Constraining black holes with light boson hair and boson stars using epicyclic frequencies and quasiperiodic oscillations |
Author: | Franchini, N. Pani, P. Maselli, A. Gualtieri, L. Herdeiro, C. A. R. Radu, E. Ferrari, V. |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Abstract: | Light bosonic fields are ubiquitous in extensions of the Standard Model. Even when minimally coupled to gravity, these fields might evade the assumptions of the black-hole no-hair theorems and give rise to spinning black holes which can be drastically different from the Kerr metric. Furthermore, they allow for self-gravitating compact solitons, known as (scalar or Proca) boson stars. The quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in the x-ray flux emitted by accreting compact objects carry information about the strong-field region, thus providing a powerful tool to constrain deviations from Kerr's geometry and to search for exotic compact objects. By using the relativistic precession model as a proxy to interpret the QPOs in terms of geodesic frequencies, we investigate how the QPO frequencies could be used to test the no-hair theorem and the existence of light bosonic fields near accreting compact objects. We show that a detection of two QPO triplets with current sensitivity can already constrain these models and that the future eXTP mission or a LOFT-like mission can set very stringent constraints on black holes with bosonic hair and on (scalar or Proca) boson stars. The peculiar geodesic structure of compact scalar/Proca boson stars implies that these objects can easily be ruled out as alternative models for x-ray source GRO J1655-40. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/18985 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.124025 |
ISSN: | 2470-0010 |
Appears in Collections: | CIDMA - Artigos DFis - Artigos GGDG - Artigos |
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