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Quasinormal Modes of Bardeen Black Hole: Scalar Perturbations
The purpose of this paper is to study quasinormal modes (QNM) of the Bardeen
black hole due to scalar perturbations. We have done a thorough analysis of the
QNM frequencies by varying the charge , mass and the spherical harmonic
index . The unstable null geodesics are used to compute the QNM's in the
eikonal limit. Furthermore, massive scalar field modes are also studied by
varying the mass of the field. Comparisons are done with the QNM frequencies of
the Reissner-Nordstrom black hole.Comment: 25 figures, Published in Physical Review D. Reference numbers
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A Universal Temperature Profile for Galaxy Clusters
We investigate the predicted present-day temperature profiles of the hot,
X-ray emitting gas in galaxy clusters for two cosmological models - a current
best-guess LCDM model and standard cold dark matter (SCDM). Our
numerically-simulated "catalogs" of clusters are derived from high-resolution
(15/h kpc) simulations which make use of a sophisticated, Eulerian-based,
Adaptive Mesh-Refinement (AMR) code that faithfully captures the shocks which
are essential for correctly modelling cluster temperatures. We show that the
temperature structure on Mpc-scales is highly complex and non-isothermal.
However, the temperature profiles of the simulated LCDM and SCDM clusters are
remarkably similar and drop-off as
where and . This decrease
is in good agreement with the observational results of Markevitch et al.(1998)
but diverges, primarily in the innermost regions, from their fit which assumes
a polytropic equation of state. Our result is also in good agreement with a
recent sample of clusters observed by BeppoSAX though there is some indication
of missing physics at small radii (). We discuss the
interpretation of our results and make predictions for new x-ray observations
that will extend to larger radii than previously possible. Finally, we show
that, for , our universal temperature profile is consistent with
our most recent simulations which include both radiative cooling and supernovae
feedback.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, full-page
version of Fig. 2 at
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/+AH4-cloken/PAPERS/UTP/f2.ep
Asymptotic Spectroscopy of Rotating Black Holes
We calculate analytically the transmission and reflection amplitudes for
waves incident on a rotating black hole in d=4, analytically continued to
asymptotically large, nearly imaginary frequency. These amplitudes determine
the asymptotic resonant frequencies of the black hole, including quasinormal
modes, total-transmission modes and total-reflection modes. We identify these
modes with semiclassical bound states of a one-dimensional Schrodinger
equation, localized along contours in the complexified r-plane which connect
turning points of corresponding null geodesics. Each family of modes has a
characteristic temperature and chemical potential. The relations between them
provide hints about the microscopic description of the black hole in this
asymptotic regime.Comment: References adde
How much entropy is produced in strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma (sQGP) by dissipative effects?
We argue that estimates of dissipative effects based on the first-order
hydrodynamics with shear viscosity are potentially misleading because higher
order terms in the gradient expansion of the dissipative part of the stress
tensor tend to reduce them. Using recently obtained sound dispersion relation
in thermal =4 supersymmetric plasma, we calculate the effect
of these high order terms for Bjorken expansion appropriate to RHIC/LHC
collisions. A reduction of entropy production is found to be substantial, up to
an order of magnitude.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figur
Physical Properties of Four SZE-Selected Galaxy Clusters in the Southern Cosmology Survey
We present the optical and X-ray properties of four clusters recently
discovered by the South Pole Telescope (SPT) using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich
effect (SZE). The four clusters are located in one of the common survey areas
of the southern sky that is also being targeted by the Atacama Cosmology
Telescope (ACT) and imaged by the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope. Based on publicly
available griz optical images and XMM-Newton and ROSAT X-ray observations we
analyse the physical properties of these clusters and obtain photometric
redshifts, luminosities, richness and mass estimates. Each cluster contains a
central elliptical whose luminosity is consistent with SDSS cluster studies.
Our mass estimates are well above the nominal detection limit of SPT and ACT;
the new SZE clusters are very likely massive systems with M>~5x10^14 M_sun.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. ApJL accepte
Boosting jet power in black hole spacetimes
The extraction of rotational energy from a spinning black hole via the
Blandford-Znajek mechanism has long been understood as an important component
in models to explain energetic jets from compact astrophysical sources. Here we
show more generally that the kinetic energy of the black hole, both rotational
and translational, can be tapped, thereby producing even more luminous jets
powered by the interaction of the black hole with its surrounding plasma. We
study the resulting Poynting jet that arises from single boosted black holes
and binary black hole systems. In the latter case, we find that increasing the
orbital angular momenta of the system and/or the spins of the individual black
holes results in an enhanced Poynting flux.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Effective temperature for black holes
The physical interpretation of black hole's quasinormal modes is fundamental
for realizing unitary quantum gravity theory as black holes are considered
theoretical laboratories for testing models of such an ultimate theory and
their quasinormal modes are natural candidates for an interpretation in terms
of quantum levels. The spectrum of black hole's quasinormal modes can be
re-analysed by introducing a black hole's effective temperature which takes
into account the fact that, as shown by Parikh and Wilczek, the radiation
spectrum cannot be strictly thermal. This issue changes in a fundamental way
the physical understanding of such a spectrum and enables a re-examination of
various results in the literature which realizes important modifies on quantum
physics of black holes. In particular, the formula of the horizon's area
quantization and the number of quanta of area result modified becoming
functions of the quantum "overtone" number n. Consequently, the famous formula
of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, its sub-leading corrections and the number of
microstates are also modified. Black hole's entropy results a function of the
quantum overtone number too. We emphasize that this is the first time that
black hole's entropy is directly connected with a quantum number. Previous
results in the literature are re-obtained in the limit n \to \infty.Comment: 10 pages,accepted for publication in Journal of High Energy Physics.
Comments are welcom
Asymptotic quasinormal modes of scalar field in a gravity's rainbow
In the context of a gravity's rainbow, the asymptotic quasinormal modes of
the scalar perturbation in the quantum modified Schwarzschild black holes are
investigated. By using the monodromy method, we calculated and obtained the
asymptotic quasinormal frequencies, which are dominated not only by the mass
parameter of the spacetime, but also by the energy functions from the modified
dispersion relations. However, the real parts of the asymptotic quasinormal
modes is still , which is consistent with Hod's conjecture. In
addition, for the quantum corrected black hole, the area spacing is calculated
and the result is independent of the energy functions, in spite of the area
itself is energy dependence. And that, by relating the area spectrum to loop
quantum gravity, the Barbero-Immirzi parameter is given and it remains the same
as from the usual black hole
Quasinormal Spectrum and Quantization of Charged Black Holes
Black-hole quasinormal modes have been the subject of much recent attention,
with the hope that these oscillation frequencies may shed some light on the
elusive theory of quantum gravity. We study {\it analytically} the asymptotic
quasinormal spectrum of a {\it charged} scalar field in the (charged)
Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime. We find an analytic expression for these
black-hole resonances in terms of the black-hole physical parameters: its
Bekenstein-Hawking temperature , and its electric potential . We
discuss the applicability of the results in the context of black-hole
quantization. In particular, we show that according to Bohr's correspondence
principle, the asymptotic resonance corresponds to a fundamental area unit
.Comment: 4 page
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