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Title: | Piercing of a boson star by a black hole |
Author: | Cardoso, Vitor Ikeda, Taishi Zhong, Zhen Zilhão, Miguel |
Issue Date: | 31-May-2022 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Abstract: | New light fundamental fields are natural candidates for all or a fraction of dark matter. Self-gravitating structures of such fields might be common objects in the universe, and could comprise even galactic halos. These structures would interact gravitationally with black holes, a process of the utmost importance since it dictates their lifetime, the black hole motion, and possible gravitational radiation emission. Here, we study the dynamics of a black hole piercing through a much larger fully relativistic boson star, made of a complex minimally coupled massive scalar without self-interactions. As the black hole pierces through the bosonic structure, it is slowed down by accretion and dynamical friction, giving rise to gravitational-wave emission. Since we are interested in studying the interaction with large and heavy scalar structures, we consider mass ratios up to $q\sim 10$ and length ratios ${\cal L} \sim 62$. Somewhat surprisingly, for all our simulations, the black hole accretes more than 95% of the boson star material, even if an initially small black hole collides with large velocity. This is a consequence of an extreme "tidal capture" process, which binds the black hole and the boson star together, for these mass ratios. We find evidence of a "gravitational atom" left behind as a product of the process. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/35226 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.044030 |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 |
Appears in Collections: | CIDMA - Artigos GGDG - Artigos |
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