Stars as resonant absorbers of gravitational waves
arXiv:1405.1414 · doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slu136
Abstract
Quadrupole oscillation modes in stars can resonate with incident gravitational waves (GWs), and grow non-linear at the expense of GW energy. Stars near massive black hole binaries (MBHB) can act as GW-charged batteries, cooling radiatively. Mass-loss from these stars can prompt MBHB accretion at near-Eddington rates. GW opacity is independent of amplitude, so distant resonating stars can eclipse GW sources. Absorption by the Sun of GWs from Galactic white dwarf binaries may be detectable with second-generation space-based GW detectors as a shadow within a complex diffraction pattern.
arXiv comment5 pages, 1 figure, MNRAS Letters accepted
References in corpus (31)
- Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies
- Discovery of a binary AGN in the ultraluminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240 using Chandra
- Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals -- Astrophysics, Science Applications and Detection using LISA
- Angular Resolution of the LISA Gravitational Wave Detector
- A Compact Supermassive Binary Black Hole System
- Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth
- Finite, Intense Accretion Bursts from Tidal Disruption of Stars on Bound Orbits
- Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks II. Model predictions & observational constraints
- X-ray Absorption and Reflection in Active Galactic Nuclei
- Characterizing the Galactic Gravitational Wave Background with LISA
- Nonlinear Tides in Close Binary Systems
- Dual Supermassive Black Hole Candidates in the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey
- A Solution to the Galactic Foreground Problem for LISA
- A Close Nuclear Black Hole Pair in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393
- Nonlinear Damping of Oscillations in Tidal-Capture Binaries
- Offset Active Galactic Nuclei as Tracers of Galaxy Mergers and Supermassive Black Hole Growth
- An approximate binary-black-hole metric
- Brightening of an Accretion Disk Due to Viscous Dissipation of Gravitational Waves During the Coalescence of Supermassive Black Holes
- The Impact of Bound Stellar Orbits and General Relativity on the Temporal Behavior of Tidal Disruption Flares
- Conformally curved binary black hole initial data including tidal deformations and outgoing radiation
- Occultation Mapping of the Central Engine in the Active Galaxy MCG -6-30-15
- Ripple effects & oscillations in the broad FeKa line as a probe of massive black hole mergers
- A sub-kpc-scale binary AGN with double narrow-line regions
- Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object Binaries: 1. The No Back Reaction Approximation
- Gravitational Helioseismology?
- Helioseismology and Asteroseismology: Looking for Gravitational Waves in acoustic oscillations
- Excitation of stellar oscillations by gravitational waves: hydrodynamic model and numerical results for the Sun
- Excitation of non-radial stellar oscillations by gravitational waves: a first model
- Gravitational Wave Heating of Stars and Accretion Disks
- Stellar transits in active galactic nuclei
- Resonant growth of stellar oscillations by incident gravitational waves
Cited by in corpus (12)
- Detecting triple systems with gravitational wave observations
- Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transitions in Gravitational Systems II: Higher Order Multipoles
- Helioseismology and Asteroseismology: Looking for Gravitational Waves in acoustic oscillations
- Nearby stars as gravitational wave detectors
- Modeling lunar response to gravitational waves using normal-mode approach and tidal forcing
- Scattering of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational waves from binary systems
- Upper Limit on the Dissipation of Gravitational Waves in Gravitationally Bound Systems
- Gravitational Waves from Stellar Black Hole Binaries and the Impact on Nearby Sun-like Stars
- On the resonant detonation of sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs during binary inspiral
- Quadrupole stellar oscillations: The impact of gravitational waves from the Galactic Center
- Resonant Locking Between Binary Systems Induced by Gravitational Waves
- Challenging theories of gravitation: dark matter, compact objects and gravitational waves