14–16 May 2024
CERN
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Signatures of ultralight bosons in the orbital eccentricity of binary black holes

16 May 2024, 12:01
5m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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Speaker

Matthias Koschnitzke (University of Hamburg/DESY)

Description

It is well known that clouds of ultralight particles surrounding black holes produced by the superradiant instability can experience Landau-Zehner transitions if the black hole is part of a binary system.
We study the effect of orbital eccentricity, backreaction of the cloud onto it and observational possibilities with future gravitational-wave detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, as well as the planned deciHertz gravitational-wave observatories. For black hole binaries with chirp masses below $10\,M_\odot$, such effects would provide strong evidence for the existence of a new particle of mass between $10^{−13}-10^{−11}\,\mathrm{eV}$.

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Primary authors

Mateja Boskovic (SISSA) Matthias Koschnitzke (University of Hamburg/DESY) Rafael Porto (DESY)

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