The spinning Kerr-black-hole-mirror bomb: A lower bound on the radius of the reflecting mirror

Abstract

The intriguing superradiant amplification phenomenon allows an orbiting scalar field to extract rotational energy from a spinning Kerr black hole. Interestingly, the energy extraction rate can grow exponentially in time if the black-hole-field system is placed inside a reflecting mirror which prevents the field from radiating its energy to infinity. This composed Kerr-black-hole-scalar-field-mirror system, first designed by Press and Teukolsky, has attracted the attention of physicists over the last four decades. Previous numerical studies of this spinning {\it black-hole bomb} have revealed the interesting fact that the superradiant instability shuts down if the reflecting mirror is placed too close to the black-hole horizon. In the present study we use analytical techniques to explore the superradiant instability regime of this composed Kerr-black-hole-linearized-scalar-field-mirror system. In particular, it is proved that the lower bound $\frac{r_{\text{m}}}{r_{+}}>\frac{1}{2}(\sqrt{1+\frac{8M}{r_{-}}}-1)$ provides a necessary condition for the development of the exponentially growing superradiant instabilities in this composed physical system, where $r_{\text{m}}$ is the radius of the confining mirror and $r_{\pm }$ are the horizon radii of the spinning Kerr black hole. We further show that, in the linearized regime, this {\it analytically} derived lower bound on the radius of the confining mirror agrees with direct {\it numerical} computations of the superradiant instability spectrum which characterizes the spinning black-hole-mirror bomb.

10 pages

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