198 research outputs found
Survival of the black hole's Cauchy horizon under non-compact perturbations
We study numerically the evolution of spactime, and in particular of a
spacetime singularity, inside a black hole under a class of perturbations of
non-compact support. We use a very simplified toy model of a spherical charged
black hole which is perturbed nonlinearly by a self-gravitating, spherical
scalar field. The latter grows logarithmically with advanced time along an
outgoing characteristic hypersurface. We find that for that class of
perturbations a portion of the Cauchy horizon survives as a non-central, null
singularity.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Modeling of ion-implanted atoms diffusion during the epitaxial growth of the layer
The equation of impurity diffusion due to formation, migration, and
dissolution of the pairs "impurity atom - intrinsic point defect" taking into
account the nonuniform distributions of nonequilibrium point defects and drift
of the pairs in the field of elastic stresses is presented in the coordinate
system associated with the moving surface of the growing epitaxial layer. The
analytical solution of this equation for the low fluence ion implantation has
been obtained.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
Self force on particle in orbit around a black hole
We study the self force acting on a scalar charge in uniform circular motion
around a Schwarzschild black hole. The analysis is based on a direct
calculation of the self force via mode decomposition, and on a regularization
procedure based on Ori's mode-sum regularization prescription. We find the four
self-force at arbitrary radii and angular velocities (both geodesic and
non-geodesic), in particular near the black hole, where general-relativistic
effects are strongest, and for fast motion. We find the radial component of the
self force to be repulsive or attractive, depending on the orbit.Comment: RevTeX, 4 pages, 4 Encapsulated PostScript figures. Submitted to
Phys. Rev. Let
Singularity deep inside the spherical charged black hole core
We study analytically the spacelike singularity inside a
spherically-symmetric, charged black hole coupled to a self-gravitating
spherical massless scalar field. We assume spatial homogeneity, and find a
generic solution in terms of a formal series expansion. This solution is tested
against fully-nonlinear and inhomogeneous numerical simulations. We find full
compliance between our analytical solution and the pointwise behavior of the
singularity in the numerical simulations. This is a strong scalar-curvature
monotonic spacelike singularity, which connects to a weak null singularity at
asymptotically-late advanced time.Comment: 6 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Orbital evolution of a test particle around a black hole: higher-order corrections
We study the orbital evolution of a radiation-damped binary in the extreme
mass ratio limit, and the resulting waveforms, to one order beyond what can be
obtained using the conservation laws approach. The equations of motion are
solved perturbatively in the mass ratio (or the corresponding parameter in the
scalar field toy model), using the self force, for quasi-circular orbits around
a Schwarzschild black hole. This approach is applied for the scalar model.
Higher-order corrections yield a phase shift which, if included, may make
gravitational-wave astronomy potentially highly accurate.Comment: 4 pages, 3 Encapsulated PostScript figure
Self-forced gravitational waveforms for Extreme and Intermediate mass ratio inspirals
We present the first orbit-integrated self force effects on the gravitational
waveform for an I(E)MRI source. We consider the quasi-circular motion of a
particle in the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole and study the
dependence of the dephasing of the corresponding gravitational waveforms due to
ignoring the conservative piece of the self force. We calculate the cumulative
dephasing of the waveforms and their overlap integral, and discuss the
importance of the conservative piece of the self force in detection and
parameter estimation. For long templates the inclusion of the conservative
piece is crucial for gravitational-wave astronomy, yet may be ignored for short
templates with little effect on detection rate. We then discuss the effect of
the mass ratio and the start point of the motion on the dephasing.Comment: 9 pages, 15 figures. Substantially expanded and revised. We added:
description of the orbits and analysis of the dependence of the dephasing
effect on the parameter space, specifically the mass ratio and starting point
of the motion. Also added a more thorough description of out metho
Singularity in 2+1 dimensional AdS-scalar black hole
We study the spacetime singularity in 2+1 dimensional AdS-scalar black hole
with circular symmetry using a quasi-homogeneous model. We show that this is a
spacelike, scalar curvature, deformationally strong singularity.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, submitted to PRD (brief report
On the falloff of radiated energy in black hole spacetimes
The goal of much research in relativity is to understand gravitational waves
generated by a strong-field dynamical spacetime. Quantities of particular
interest for many calculations are the Weyl scalar , which is simply
related to the flux of gravitational waves far from the source, and the flux of
energy carried to distant observers, . Conservation laws guarantee
that, in asympotically flat spacetimes, and as . Most calculations extract these quantities at
some finite extraction radius. An understanding of finite radius corrections to
and allows us to more accurately infer their asymptotic
values from a computation. In this paper, we show that, if the final state of
the system is a black hole, then the leading correction to is , and that to the energy flux is --- not and as one might naively guess. Our argument only
relies on the behavior of the curvature scalars for black hole spacetimes.
Using black hole perturbation theory, we calculate the corrections to the
leading falloff, showing that it is quite easy to correct for finite extraction
radius effects.Comment: 5 pages, no figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. D. This version corrects
several typos and minor errors in the earlier submissio
Remarks on the formation of black holes in non-symmetric gravity
In a recent paper, we discussed the formation of black holes in non-symmetric gravity. That paper was then criticized by Cornish and Moffat. In the present paper, we address the arguments raised by Cornish and Moffat. In summary, we do not see any reason to doubt the validity of our former conclusions
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