Kerr black holes with scalar hair

Mar 11, 2014
5 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 221101
  • Published: Jun 2, 2014
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Abstract: (APS)

We present a family of solutions of Einstein’s gravity minimally coupled to a complex, massive scalar field, describing asymptotically flat, spinning black holes with scalar hair and a regular horizon. These hairy black holes (HBHs) are supported by rotation and have no static limit. Besides mass M and angular momentum J, they carry a conserved, continuous Noether charge Q measuring the scalar hair. HBHs branch off from the Kerr metric at the threshold of the superradiant instability and reduce to spinning boson stars in the limit of vanishing horizon area. They overlap with Kerr black holes for a set of (M, J) values. A single Killing vector field preserves the solutions, tangent to the null geodesic generators of the event horizon. HBHs can exhibit sharp physical differences when compared to the Kerr solution, such as J/M2>1, a quadrupole moment larger than J2/M, and a larger orbital angular velocity at the innermost stable circular orbit. Families of HBHs connected to the Kerr geometry should exist in scalar (and other) models with more general self-interactions.

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  • 5 pages, 5 figures; v2 minor typos corrected, added references; v3 minor improvements, version accepted in Physical Review Letters
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  • hair: scalar
  • black hole: Kerr
  • black hole: hair
  • metric: Kerr
  • field theory: scalar
  • vector: Killing
  • charge: Noether