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作为广义相对论检验的黑洞连续谱:二次引力

Black Hole Continuum Spectra as a Test of General Relativity: Quadratic Gravity

Dimitry Ayzenberg, Nicolas Yunes

摘要:

观测黑洞周围的吸积盘发出的连续光谱,使我们能够推断它们的性质,包括可能的黑洞是否可以用克尔度规描述。一些修正的引力理论不承认克尔度规作为解,因此,连续谱观测可以用来约束这些理论。在这里,我们调查是否当前和下一代X射线观测的黑洞连续谱可以约束这种偏离爱因斯坦的理论,专注于两个动机良好的修改二次引力理论:动力学陈-西蒙斯引力和爱因斯坦-牛顿-高斯-邦纳引力。我们这样做是通过确定这些理论引入的连续谱中的非克尔偏差是否大于观测固有的观测误差。我们发现,动力学陈-西蒙斯引力不能约束比目前的边界与当前或下一代连续谱观测。然而,只要吸积盘模型中固有的系统误差降低到预测的观测误差以下,爱因斯坦-牛顿-高斯-邦纳引力可能会受到比当前更好的约束。

英文摘要:

Observations of the continuum spectrum emitted by accretion disks around black holes allows us to infer their properties, including possibly whether black holes are described by the Kerr metric. Some modified gravity theories do not admit the Kerr metric as a solution, and thus, continuum spectrum observations could be used to constrain these theories. We here investigate whether current and next generation X-Ray observations of the black hole continuum spectrum can constrain such deviations from Einstein's theory, focusing on two well-motivated modified quadratic gravity theories: dynamical Chern-Simons gravity and Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We do so by determining whether the non-Kerr deviations in the continuum spectrum introduced by these theories are larger than the observational error intrinsic to the observations. We find that dynamical Chern-Simons gravity cannot be constrained better than current bounds with current or next generation continuum spectrum observations. Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, however, may be constrained better than current bounds with next generation telescopes, as long as the systematic error inherent in the accretion disk modeling is decreased below the predicted observational error.

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