Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory

We study slowly rotating, asymptotically flat black holes in Einstein-æther theory and show that solutions that are free from naked finite area singularities form a two-parameter family. These parameters can be thought of as the mass and angular momentum of the black hole, while there are no indepen...

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Main Authors: Barausse, Enrico, Sotiriou, Thomas P., Vega, Ian
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Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39495/
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description We study slowly rotating, asymptotically flat black holes in Einstein-æther theory and show that solutions that are free from naked finite area singularities form a two-parameter family. These parameters can be thought of as the mass and angular momentum of the black hole, while there are no independent æ ther charges. We also show that the æ ther has nonvanishing vorticity throughout the spacetime, as a result of which there is no hypersurface that resembles the universal horizon found in static, spherically symmetric solutions. Moreover, for experimentally viable choices of the coupling constants, the frame-dragging potential of our solutions only shows percent-level deviations from the corresponding quantities in General Relativity and Hořava gravity. Finally, we uncover and discuss several subtleties in the correspondence between Einstein-æther theory and Hořava gravity solutions in the c ω →∞ limit.
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spelling nottingham-394952020-05-04T17:36:52Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39495/ Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory Barausse, Enrico Sotiriou, Thomas P. Vega, Ian We study slowly rotating, asymptotically flat black holes in Einstein-æther theory and show that solutions that are free from naked finite area singularities form a two-parameter family. These parameters can be thought of as the mass and angular momentum of the black hole, while there are no independent æ ther charges. We also show that the æ ther has nonvanishing vorticity throughout the spacetime, as a result of which there is no hypersurface that resembles the universal horizon found in static, spherically symmetric solutions. Moreover, for experimentally viable choices of the coupling constants, the frame-dragging potential of our solutions only shows percent-level deviations from the corresponding quantities in General Relativity and Hořava gravity. Finally, we uncover and discuss several subtleties in the correspondence between Einstein-æther theory and Hořava gravity solutions in the c ω →∞ limit. American Physical Society 2016-02-16 Article PeerReviewed Barausse, Enrico, Sotiriou, Thomas P. and Vega, Ian (2016) Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory. Physical Review D, 93 (4). 44044/1-44044/23. ISSN 2470-0029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.044044 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.044044 doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.044044
spellingShingle Barausse, Enrico
Sotiriou, Thomas P.
Vega, Ian
Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory
title Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory
title_full Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory
title_fullStr Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory
title_full_unstemmed Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory
title_short Slowly rotating black holes in Einstein-æther theory
title_sort slowly rotating black holes in einstein-æther theory
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39495/
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