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Gravitational waves from gamma-ray bursts
We present a mechanism for long bursts of gravitational radiation from Kerr
black holes surrounded by a torus. These systems are believed to form in
core-collapse of massive stars in association with gamma-ray bursts. The torus
catalyzes black hole-spin energy mostly into gravitational radiation, with a
minor output in winds, thermal and neutrino emissions. Torus winds impact the
remnant envelope of the progenitor star from within, which may account for
X-ray emission lines and leaves a supernova remnant. The frequency in
gravitational radiation satisfies f_{gw}=470Hz (E_{SNR}/4\times
10^{51})^{1/2}(0.1/\beta)^{1/2}(7M_\odot/M_H)^{3/2}, where E_{SNR} is the
kinetic energy in the SNR, M_H is the black hole mass and \beta\simeq0.1 the
initial ejection velocity, as detected in GRB 011211. Ultimately, this leaves a
black hole binary surrounded by a SNR, which is conceivably illustrated by RX
J050736-6847.8.Comment: Invited talk at GRBs in the Afterglow Era: 3rd Workshop, Rome 200
Gravitational radiation from a torus around a black hole
Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from rapidly spinning black hole-torus systems
may represent hypernovae or black hole-neutron star coalescence. We show that
the torus may radiate gravitational radiation powered by the spin-energy of the
black hole in the presence of non-axisymmetries. The coupling to the
spin-energy of the black hole is due to equivalence in poloidal topology to
pulsar magnetospheres. Results calculated in the suspended accretion state
indicate that GRBs are potentially the most powerful LIGO/VIRGO burst-sources
in the Universe, with an expected duration of 10-15s on a horizontal branch of
1-2kHz in the diagram.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Phys. Rev. Let
Extreme luminosities in ejecta produced by intermittent outflows around rotating black holes
Extreme sources in the Transient Universe show evidence of relativistic
outflows from intermittent inner engines, such as cosmological gamma-ray
bursts. They probably derive from rotating back holes interacting with
surrounding matter. We show that these interactions are enhanced inversely
proportional to the duty cycle in advection of magnetic flux, as may apply at
high accretion rates. We demonstrate the morphology and ballistic propagation
of relativistic ejecta from burst outflows by numerical simulations in
relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. Applied to stellar mass black holes in
core-collapse of massive stars, it provides a robust explosion mechanism as a
function of total energy output. At breakout, these ejecta may produce a
low-luminosity GRB. A long GRB may ensue from an additional ultra-relativistic
baryon-poor inner jet from a sufficiently long-lived intermittent inner engine.
The simulations demonstrate a complex geometry in mergers of successive ejecta,
whose mixing and shocks provide a pathway to broadband high energy emission
from magnetic reconnection and shocks.Comment: MNRASL, to appea
Hyperbolic Hamiltonian equations for general relativity
The 3+1 Hamiltonian formulation in the gauge on the lapse function
fixes the direction of time associated with the trace of the extrinsic
curvature tensor. The Hamiltonian equations hereby become hyperbolic. We study
this new system for black hole spacetimes that are asymptotically quiescent,
which introduces analyticity properties that can be exploited for numerical
calculations by compactification in spherical coordinates with complex radius
following a M\"obius transformation. Conformal flat initial data of two black
holes are hereby invariant, and correspond to a turn point in a pendulum, up
for a pair of separated black holes and down for a single black hole. Here,
Newton's law appears in the relaxation of deformations of semi-infinite
poloidal surface elements, defined by the moment of inertia of the binary.Comment: Based on an invited talk at the Federation Denis Poisson (October
2008
Global spectral representations of black hole spacetimes in the complex plane
Binary black hole coalescence produces a finite burst of gravitational
radiation which propagates towards quiescent infinity. These spacetimes are
analytic about infinity and contain a dimensionless coupling constant ,
where denotes the total mass-energy and an imaginary distance. This
introduces globally convergent Fourier series on a complex radial coordinate,
allowing spectral representation of black hole spacetimes in all three
dimensions. We illustrate this representation theory on a Fourier-Legendre
expansion of Boyer-Lindquist initial data and a scalar wave equation with
signal recovery by Cauchy's integral formula.Comment: Based on an invited talk at the Int'l Conf. Theor. Physics, 11-16
April 2005, Lebedev Physical Institute, Mosco
The Theory Of Ideal Yang-Mills Fluids In Symmetric Hyperbolic Form
The theory of ideal Yang-Mills fluids (IYMF; a Yang-Mills field coupled to a
fluid in the limit of infinite conductivity) is embedded in symmetric
hyperbolic form. This yields both causality and well-posedness of initial value
problems in this theory. The embedding is based on a covariant, constraint-free
divergence formulation of IYMF, developped by the author previously for
magneto-hydrodynamics. Expressions for the small amplitude wave structure are
also derived, showing that in general Alfven waves do not persist in the
presence of colored magnetic fields.Comment: 36 page
Galaxy rotation curves and the deceleration parameter in weak gravity
We present a theory of weak gravity parameterized by a fundamental frequency
of the cosmoloogical horizon, where and denote
the Hubble and, respectively, deceleration parameter. It predicts (i) a
onset to weak gravity across accelerations in galaxy rotation
curves, where denotes the de Sitter acceleration with velocity of
light , and (ii) fast evolution of the deceleration
parameter by satisfying , , distinct
from in CDM. The first is identified in high resolution
data of Lellie et al.(2017), the second in heterogeneous data on over
. A model-independent cubic fit in the second rules out CDM by
and obtains km s Mpc consistent
with Riess et al. (2016). Comments on possible experimental tests by the LISA
Pathfinder are included.Comment: 15 p., 5 figs., based on invited talk Conference Cosmology,
Gravitational waves and Particles, 6-10 Feb., NTU, Singapore (2017
Directed searches for broadband extended gravitational-wave emission in nearby energetic core-collapse supernovae
Core-collapse supernovae are factories of neutron stars and stellar mass
black holes. Type Ib/c supernovae stand out as potentially originating in
relatively compact stellar binaries and their branching ratio of about 1\% into
long gamma-ray bursts. The most energetic events probably derive from central
engines harboring rapidly rotating black holes, wherein accretion of fall-back
matter down to the Inner Most Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO) offers a window to
{\em broadband extended gravitational-wave emission} (BEGE). To search for
BEGE, we introduce a butterfly filter in time-frequency space by Time Sliced
Matched Filtering. To analyze long epochs of data, we propose using coarse
grained searches followed by high resolution searches on events of interest. We
illustrate our proposed coarse grained search on two weeks of LIGO S6 data
prior to SN 2010br using a bank of up to 64 thousand templates
of one second duration covering a broad range in chirp frequencies and
bandwidth. Correlating events with signal-to-noise ratios from the LIGO L1
and H1 detectors each reduces to a few events of interest. Lacking any further
properties reflecting a common excitation by broadband gravitational radiation,
we disregarded these as spurious. This new pipeline may be used to
systematically search for long duration chirps in nearby core-collapse
supernovae from robotic optical transient surveys using embarrassingly parallel
computing.Comment: 26 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Ap
Asymptotic harmonic behavior in the prime number distribution
We consider on , where the sum is over all primes . If is bounded
on , then the Riemann hypothesis is true or there are infinitely many
zeros Re~. The first 21 zeros give rise to asymptotic harmonic
behavior in defined by the prime numbers up to one trillion.Comment: minor revision, 13 pages, 3 figure
Deep searches for broadband extended gravitational-wave emission bursts by heterogeneous computing
We present a heterogeneous search algorithm for broadband extended
gravitational-wave emission (BEGE), expected from gamma-ray bursts and
energetic core-collapse supernovae. It searches the -plane for
long duration bursts by inner engines slowly exhausting their energy reservoir
by matched filtering on a {\em Graphics Processor Unit} (GPU) over a template
bank of millions of one-second duration chirps. Parseval's Theorem is used to
predict the standard deviation of filter output, taking advantage of
near-Gaussian noise in LIGO S6 data over 350-2000 Hz. Tails exceeding a
mulitple of are communicated back to a {\em Central Processing Unit}
(CPU). This algorithm attains about 65\% efficiency overall, normalized to the
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). At about one million correlations per second over
data segments of 16 s duration samples), better than real-time
analysis is achieved on a cluster of about a dozen GPUs. We demonstrate its
application to the capture of high frequency hardware LIGO injections. This
algorithm serves as a starting point for deep all-sky searches in both archive
data and real-time analysis in current observational runs.Comment: to appear in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP),
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