Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-05-11
Phys.Lett.B679:499-503,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
10 pages, 5 figures, Latex, new material and references added, the version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.073
Recently a renormalizable model of gravity has been proposed, which might be a UV completion of General Relativity (GR) or its infra-red modification, probably with a strongly coupled scalar mode. Although the generic vacuum of the theory is anti-de Sitter one, particular limits of the theory allow for the Minkowski vacuum. In this limit (though without consideration of the strongly coupled scalar field) post-Newtonian coefficients of spherically symmetric solutions coincide with those of the General Relativity. Thus the deviations from the convenient GR should be tested beyond the post-Newtonian corrections, that is for a system with strong gravity at astrophysical scales. In this letter we consider potentially observable properties of black holes in the deformed Horava-Lifshitz gravity with Minkowski vacuum: the gravitational lensing and quasinormal modes. We have showed that the bending angle is seemingly smaller in the considered Horava-Lifshitz gravity than in GR. The quasinormal modes of black holes are longer lived and have larger real oscillation frequency in the Horava-Lifshitz gravity than in GR. These corrections should be observable in the near future experiments on lensing and by gravitational antennas, helping to constrain parameters of the Horava-Lifshitz gravity or to discard it.
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