Universal $10^{20}$ Hz stochastic gravitational waves from photon spheres of black holes

23 Aug 2021, 17:45
15m
ZR5

ZR5

Gravitational Waves as Probes for New Physics Gravitational Waves as Probes for New Physics

Speaker

Kaishu Saito (Kobe University)

Description

We show that photon spheres of supermassive black holes generate high-frequency stochastic gravitational waves through
the photon-graviton conversion.
Remarkably, the frequency is universally determined as $m_e\sqrt{m_e /m_p} \simeq 10^{20} \text{Hz}$ in terms of the proton mass $m_p$ and the electron mass $m_e$.
It turns out that the density parameter of the stochastic gravitational waves $ \Omega_{ \text{gw}}$ could be $ 10^{-12}$.
Since the existence of the gravitational waves from photon spheres is robust,
it is worth seeking methods of detecting high-frequency gravitational waves around $10^{20}$Hz.

Primary author

Kaishu Saito (Kobe University)

Co-authors

Prof. Jiro Soda (Kobe University) Dr Hirotaka Yoshino (Kobe University and Osaka city University)

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