Evolution of the spin parameter of accreting compact objects with non-Kerr quadrupole moment

Details Evolution of the spin parameter of accreting compact objects with non-Kerr quadrupole moment Evolution of the spin parameter of accreting compact objects with non-Kerr quadrupole moment

2011-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5135v2

JCAP 1105:009,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

20 pages, 16 figures. v2: published version with a few typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2011/05/009

There is robust observational evidence supporting the existence of $5 - 20$ $M_\odot$ compact bodies in X-ray binary systems and of $10^5 - 10^9$ $M_\odot$ bodies at the center of many galaxies. All these objects are commonly interpreted as black holes, even is there is no direct evidence that they have an event horizon. A fundamental limit for a black hole in 4-dimensional general relativity is the Kerr bound $|a_*| \le 1$, where $a_*$ is the spin parameter. This is just the condition for the existence of the event horizon. The accretion process can spin a black hole up to $a_* \approx 0.998$ and some super-massive objects in galactic nuclei could be rapidly rotating black holes with spin parameter close to this limit. However, if these super-massive objects are not black holes, the Kerr bound does not hold and the accretion process can spin them up to $a_* > 1$. In this paper, I consider compact bodies with non-Kerr quadrupole moment. I study the evolution of the spin parameter due to accretion and I find its equilibrium value. Future experiments like the gravitational wave detector LISA will be able to test if the super-massive objects at the center of galaxies are the black holes predicted by general relativity. If they are not black holes, some of them may be super-spinning objects with $a_* > 1$.

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