Constraining black hole mimickers with gravitational wave observations
arXiv:1804.08026 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.123010
Abstract
LIGO and Virgo have recently observed a number of gravitational wave (GW) signals that are fully consistent with being emitted by binary black holes described by general relativity. However, there are theoretical proposals of exotic objects that can be massive and compact enough to be easily confused with black holes. Nevertheless, these objects differ from black holes in having nonzero tidal deformabilities, which can allow one to distinguish binaries containing such objects from binary black holes using GW observations. Using full Bayesian parameter estimation, we investigate the possibility of constraining the parameter space of such "black hole mimickers" with upcoming GW observations. Employing perfect fluid stars with a polytropic equation of state as a simple model that can encompass a variety of possible black hole mimickers, we show how the observed masses and tidal deformabilities of a binary constrain the equation of state. We also show how such constraints can be used to rule out some simple models of boson stars.
13 pages, 5 figures; v3: Accepted manuscript
References in corpus (83)
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
- Planck 2015 results. XIII. Cosmological parameters
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
- Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
- GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
- Advanced LIGO
- GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
- GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
- GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
- GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M Black Hole with a 2.6 M Compact Object
- Tests of general relativity with GW150914
- GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass
- GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of
- GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
- Constraining neutron star tidal Love numbers with gravitational wave detectors
- Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
- Frequency-domain gravitational waves from non-precessing black-hole binaries. II. A phenomenological model for the advanced detector era
- Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic equations of state and their gravitational wave signatures in binary inspiral
- Robust parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library
- Relativistic tidal properties of neutron stars
- Tests of General Relativity with the Binary Black Hole Signals from the LIGO-Virgo Catalog GWTC-1
- Gravitational Vacuum Condensate Stars
- GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses
- Comparison of post-Newtonian templates for compact binary inspiral signals in gravitational-wave detectors
- Use and Abuse of the Fisher Information Matrix in the Assessment of Gravitational-Wave Parameter-Estimation Prospects
- Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 Msun binary black hole merger GW190521
- An improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors
- Echoes of ECOs: gravitational-wave signatures of exotic compact objects and of quantum corrections at the horizon scale
- Measurability of the tidal polarizability of neutron stars in late-inspiral gravitational-wave signals
- Exploring short gamma-ray bursts as gravitational-wave standard sirens
- The observational evidence for horizons: from echoes to precision gravitational-wave physics
- Tests for the existence of horizons through gravitational wave echoes
- Measuring the neutron star equation of state with gravitational wave observations
- Post-1-Newtonian tidal effects in the gravitational waveform from binary inspirals
- Time-domain effective-one-body gravitational waveforms for coalescing compact binaries with nonprecessing spins, tides and self-spin effects
- Testing strong-field gravity with tidal Love numbers
- Effective One Body description of tidal effects in inspiralling compact binaries
- Bayesian coherent analysis of in-spiral gravitational wave signals with a detector network
- Systematic and statistical errors in a bayesian approach to the estimation of the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational wave detectors
- Matter imprints in waveform models for neutron star binaries: tidal and self-spin effects
- Distinguishing Boson Stars from Black Holes and Neutron Stars from Tidal Interactions in Inspiraling Binary Systems
- Tidal effects in binary neutron star coalescence
- Gravitational Wave Signatures of Highly Compact Boson Star Binaries
- Beyond second-order convergence in simulations of binary neutron stars in full general-relativity
- Testing the binary black hole nature of a compact binary coalescence
- Anisotropic stars as ultracompact objects in General Relativity
- Probing Planckian corrections at the horizon scale with LISA binaries
- Characterization of systematic error in Advanced LIGO calibration
- Hunting for Dark Particles with Gravitational Waves
- Non-linear dynamics of spinning bosonic stars: formation and stability
- The Tune of Love and the Nature(ness) of Spacetime
- Tidal Love numbers of a slowly spinning neutron star
- Energy and angular momentum flow into a black hole in a binary
- Observing and measuring the neutron-star equation-of-state in spinning binary neutron star systems
- Orbital Dynamics of Binary Boson Star Systems
- On the final fate of compact boson star mergers
- Tidal deformability and I-Love-Q relations for gravastars with polytropic thin shells
- I-Love-Q relations for a gravastar and the approach to the black-hole limit
- Multipole Love Relations
- Tidal heating as a discriminator for horizons in extreme mass ratio inspirals
- Head-on collisions and orbital mergers of Proca stars
- Tidal effects in the gravitational-wave phase evolution of compact binary systems to next-to-next-to-leading post-Newtonian order
- Gravitational Wave Emission from Collisions of Compact Scalar Solitons
- On the Ambiguity in Relativistic Tidal Deformability
- Post-Newtonian spin-tidal couplings for compact binaries
- Gravitational Waves from Dark Boson Star binary mergers
- Conformally curved binary black hole initial data including tidal deformations and outgoing radiation
- Resonant SIMP dark matter
- Parameter estimation on compact binary coalescences with abruptly terminating gravitational waveforms
- Advanced LIGO's ability to detect apparent violations of the cosmic censorship conjecture and the no-hair theorem through compact binary coalescence detections
- Tidal deformability of boson stars and dark matter clumps
- Constraints on the binary black hole nature of GW151226 and GW170608 from the measurement of spin-induced quadrupole moments
- Spin-induced deformations and tests of binary black hole nature using third-generation detectors
- Relativistic theory of surficial Love numbers
- Gravitational-wave detectors as particle-physics laboratories: Constraining scalar interactions with a coherent inspiral model of boson-star binaries
- Distinguishing high-mass binary neutron stars from binary black holes with second- and third-generation gravitational wave observatories
- Tidal deformation of a slowly rotating material body: Interior metric and Love numbers
- Gravitational waveforms for neutron star binaries from binary black hole simulations
- Distinguishing black holes from horizonless objects through the excitation of resonances during inspiral
- Extended I-Love relations for slowly rotating neutron stars
- Testing the Kerr nature of intermediate-mass and supermassive black hole binaries using spin-induced multipole moment measurements
- Probing resonant excitations in exotic compact objects via gravitational waves
- Rotational-tidal phasing of the binary neutron star waveform
Cited by in corpus (44)
- Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
- Dynamical Boson Stars
- New Horizons for Fundamental Physics with LISA
- Phenomenological aspects of black holes beyond general relativity
- The imitation game: Proca stars that can mimic the Schwarzschild shadow
- Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3
- Structure Formation and Exotic Compact Objects in a Dissipative Dark Sector
- Discriminating between Neutron Stars and Black Holes with Imperfect Knowledge of the Maximum Neutron Star Mass
- Possible Causes of False General Relativity Violations in Gravitational Wave Observations
- New light rings from multiple critical curves as observational signatures of black hole mimickers
- The Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna: Mission Studies and Science Case
- AdS-Taub-NUT spacetimes and exact black bounces with scalar hair
- Gravitational-wave constraints on the GWTC-2 events by measuring the tidal deformability and the spin-induced quadrupole moment
- Tidal deformations of hybrid stars with sharp phase transitions and elastic crusts
- Constraining properties of asymmetric dark matter candidates from gravitational-wave observations
- Exploring strong-field deviations from general relativity via gravitational waves
- Investigating the relation between gravitational wave tests of general relativity
- Oscillations in the EMRI gravitational wave phase correction as a probe of reflective boundary of the central black hole
- Absorption by black hole remnants in metric-affine gravity
- Unequal-mass boson-star binaries: Initial data and merger dynamics
- Eccentricity-induced systematic error on parametrized tests of general relativity: Hierarchical Bayesian inference applied to a binary black hole population
- Towards establishing the presence or absence of horizons in coalescing binaries of compact objects by using their gravitational wave signals
- Modeling gravitational waves from exotic compact objects
- Bayesian parameter estimation on boson-star binary signals with a coherent inspiral template and spin-dependent quadrupolar corrections
- Population inference of spin-induced quadrupole moments as a probe for non-black hole compact binaries
- Asymmetric wormholes in Palatini gravity: Energy conditions, absorption and quasibound states
- Where is Love? Tidal deformability in the black hole compactness limit
- Generic initial data for binary boson stars
- Dark Stars and Gravitational Waves: Topical Review
- Effect of double spin-precession and higher harmonics on spin-induced quadrupole moment measurements
- Novel triple barrier potential for axial gravitational perturbations of a family of Lorentzian wormholes
- Modeling and detecting resonant tides of exotic compact objects
- Confronting general relativity with principal component analysis: Simulations and results from GWTC-3 events
- Efficient search method of anomalous reflection by the central object in an EMRI system by future space gravitational wave detectors
- Probing the Spin-Induced Quadrupole Moment of Massive Black Holes with the Inspiral of Binary Black Holes
- Matching slowly rotating spacetimes split by dynamic thin shells
- Testing modified gravity with the eccentric neutron star--black hole merger GW200105
- Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Opportunities with Stellar-Mass Binary Black Hole Mergers
- Tidal deformations of compact objects and gravitational wave emission
- Regular Rotating MOG Dark Compact Object
- Fundamental oscillations as a tool to distinguish boson stars from neutron stars and black holes
- Static Charged Polytropic Spheres with a Cosmological Constant: Physical Acceptability and Trapped Orbits
- Light ring images of double photon spheres in black hole and wormhole space-times
- Applying higher-modes consistency test on GW190814 : lessons on no-hair theorem, nature of the secondary compact object and waveform modeling