Shaving off soft hairs and the black hole image memory effect

Abstract

Soft hairs of black holes are the Noether charges associated with the generalized Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetries. In this work, the images of soft-haired Kerr black holes are studied. For an eternal black hole, the image is rotated, dilated, and drifting compared to that of the bald counterpart in the celestial plane. The rotation and the dilation are independent of time, while the drifting occurs at a constant speed and in a fixed direction. These effects all depend on angular directions. The soft hair of an astronomical black hole can change due to the emission of gravitational or electromagnetic waves from various physical processes occurring in the vicinity of the horizon. Then, the image roams in the observer's view, causing the image memory effect, the smoking gun for the existence of soft hair. The magnitude of the image memory effect of a huge, spinning black hole accompanied by a much smaller one is estimated. It turns out that this effect is proportional to the mass of the large black hole, increases with its spin, but decreases with the mass ratio. Due to the limited angular resolution of current and future detectors, this effect is hard to detect if the impact of cosmological expansion is ignored.

18 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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