Late-time dynamics of rapidly rotating black holes

Details Late-time dynamics of rapidly rotating black holes Late-time dynamics of rapidly rotating black holes

2001-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0103054v1

Phys.Rev. D64 (2001) 104021

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

27 pages, 9 ps figures, RevTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.64.104021

We study the late-time behaviour of a dynamically perturbed rapidly rotating black hole. Considering an extreme Kerr black hole, we show that the large number of virtually undamped quasinormal modes (that exist for nonzero values of the azimuthal eigenvalue m) combine in such a way that the field (as observed at infinity) oscillates with an amplitude that decays as 1/t at late times. This is in clear contrast with the standard late time power-law fall-off familiar from studies of non-rotating black holes. This long-lived oscillating ``tail'' will, however, not be present for non-extreme (presumably more astrophysically relevant) black holes, for which we find that many quasinormal modes (individually excited to a very small amplitude) combine to give rise to an exponentially decaying field. This result could have implications for the detection of gravitational-wave signals from rapidly spinning black holes, since the required theoretical templates need to be constructed from linear combinations of many modes. Our main results are obtained analytically, but we support the conclusions with numerical time-evolutions of the Teukolsky equation. These time-evolutions provide an interesting insight into the notion that the quasinormal modes can be viewed as waves trapped in the spacetime region outside the horizon. They also suggest that a plausible mechanism for the behaviour we observe for extreme black holes is the presence of a ``superradiance resonance cavity'' immediately outside the black hole.

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