Onset of superradiant instabilities in the composed Kerr-black-hole-mirror bomb

Abstract

It was first pointed out by Press and Teukolsky that a system composed of a spinning Kerr black hole surrounded by a reflecting mirror may develop instabilities. The physical mechanism responsible for the development of these exponentially growing instabilities is the superradiant amplification of bosonic fields confined between the black hole and the mirror. A remarkable feature of this composed black-hole-mirror-field system is the existence of a critical mirror radius, $r_{\text{m}}^{\text{stat}}$, which supports {\it stationary} (marginally-stable) field configurations. This critical (`stationary') mirror radius marks the boundary between stable and unstable black-hole-mirror-field configurations: composed systems whose confining mirror is situated in the region $r_{\text{m}}<r_{\text{m}}^{\text{stat}}$ are stable (that is, all modes of the confined field decay in time), whereas composed systems whose confining mirror is situated in the region $r_{\text{m}}>r_{\text{m}}^{\text{stat}}$ are unstable (that is, there are confined field modes which grow exponentially over time). In the present paper we explore this critical (marginally-stable) boundary between stable and explosive black-hole-mirror-field configurations. It is shown that the innermost ({\it smallest}) radius of the confining mirror which allows the extraction of rotational energy from a spinning Kerr black hole approaches the black-hole horizon radius in the extremal limit of rapidly-rotating black holes. We find, in particular, that this critical mirror radius (which marks the onset of superradiant instabilities in the composed system) scales linearly with the black-hole temperature.

19 pages. This is an extended version of the one published in Physics Letters B 736, 398 (2014)

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