101 research outputs found
Magnetic-distortion-induced ellipticity and gravitational wave radiation of neutron stars: millisecond magnetars in short GRBs, Galactic pulsars, and magnetars
Neutron stars may sustain a non-axisymmetric deformation due to magnetic
distortion and are potential sources of continuous gravitational waves (GWs)
for ground-based interferometric detectors. With decades of searches using
available GW detectors, no evidence of a GW signal from any pulsar has been
observed. Progressively stringent upper limits of ellipticity have been placed
on Galactic pulsars. In this work, we use the ellipticity inferred from the
putative millisecond magnetars in short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) to estimate
their detectability by current and future GW detectors. For ms
magnetars inferred from the SGRB data, the detection horizon is Mpc
and Mpc for advanced LIGO (aLIGO) and Einstein Telescope (ET),
respectively. Using the ellipticity of SGRB millisecond magnetars as
calibration, we estimate the ellipticity and gravitational wave strain of
Galactic pulsars and magnetars assuming that the ellipticity is
magnetic-distortion-induced. We find that the results are consistent with the
null detection results of Galactic pulsars and magnetars with the aLIGO O1. We
further predict that the GW signals from these pulsars/magnetars may not be
detectable by the currently designed aLIGO detector. The ET detector may be
able to detect some relatively low frequency signals ( Hz) from some of
these pulsars. Limited by its design sensitivity, the eLISA detector seems not
suitable for detecting the signals from Galactic pulsars and magnetars.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap
Hawking radiation from spherically symmetrical gravitational collapse to an extremal R-N black hole for a charged scalar field
Sijie Gao has recently investigated Hawking radiation from spherically
symmetrical gravitational collapse to an extremal R-N black hole for a real
scalar field. Especially he estimated the upper bound for the expected number
of particles in any wave packet belonging to spontaneously
produced from the state , which confirms the traditional belief that
extremal black holes do not radiate particles. Making some modifications, we
demonstrate that the analysis can go through for a charged scalar field.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
Finite-distance gravitational deflection of massive particles by a rotating black hole in loop quantum gravity
A rotating black hole in loop quantum gravity was constructed by Brahma,
Chen, and Yeom based on a nonrotating counterpart using the revised
Newman-Janis algorithm recently. For such spacetime, we investigate the weak
gravitational deflection of massive particles to explore observational effects
of the quantum correction. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, for
Gibbons-Werner (GW) method, a geometric approach computing the deflection angle
of particles in curved spacetimes, we refine its calculation and obtain a
simplified formula. Second, by using GW method and our new formula, we work out
the finite-distance weak deflection angle of massive particles for the rotating
black hole in loop quantum gravity obtained by Brahma An analysis to
our result reveals the repulsive effect of the quantum correction to particles.
What's more, an observational constraint on the quantum parameter is obtained
in solar system
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