Probing Near-Horizon Fluctuations with Black Hole Binary Mergers
arXiv:1707.02299 · doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2018)176
Abstract
The strong version of the nonviolent nonlocality proposal of Giddings predicts "strong but soft" quantum metric fluctuations near black hole horizons in an attempt to resolve the information paradox. To study observable signatures of this proposal, we numerically solve Einstein's equations modified by these fluctuations and analyze the gravitational wave signal from the inspiral and merger of two black holes. In a model of evolution for such fluctuations, we show that they lead to significant deviations in the observed waveform, even when the black holes are still well separated, and could potentially be observed by aLIGO.
7 pages, 6 figures; v2: published version
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