3 papers
gr-qc2025
Nonlinear evolution of the spin-2 black hole superradiant instability
Taillte May, William E. East
Massive spin-2 fields, which arise in proposed extensions of the standard model of particle physics and general relativity, give rise to a superradiant instability around spinning…
gr-qc2025
Self-Gravity Effects of Ultralight Boson Clouds Formed by Black Hole Superradiance
Taillte May, William E. East, Nils Siemonsen
Oscillating clouds of ultralight bosons can grow around spinning black holes through superradiance, extracting energy and angular momentum, and eventually dissipating through gravi…
gr-qc2024
Nonlinear effect of absorption on the ringdown of a spinning black hole
Taillte May, Sizheng Ma, Justin L. Ripley +1
The ringdown gravitational wave signal arising e.g., in the final stage of a black hole binary merger, contains important information about the properties of the remnant, and can p…