Testing modified gravity and no-hair relations for the Kerr-Newman metric through quasiperiodic oscillations of galactic microquasars

Arthur George Suvorov and Andrew Melatos
Phys. Rev. D 93, 024004 – Published 7 January 2016

Abstract

We construct multipole moments for stationary, asymptotically flat, spacetime solutions to higher-order curvature theories of gravity. The moments are defined using 3+1 techniques involving timelike Killing vector constructions as in the classic papers by Geroch and Hansen. Using the fact that the Kerr-Newman metric is a vacuum solution to a particular class of f(R) theories of gravity, we compute all its moments, and find that they admit recurrence relations similar to those for the Kerr solution in general relativity. It has been proposed previously that modeling the measured frequencies of quasiperiodic oscillations from galactic microquasars enables experimental tests of the no-hair theorem. We explore the possibility that, even if the no-hair relation is found to break down in the context of general relativity, there may be an f(R) counterpart that is preserved. We apply the results to the microquasars GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655-40 using the diskoseismology and kinematic resonance models, and constrain the spins and “charges” of their black holes.

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  • Received 7 September 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.024004

© 2016 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Arthur George Suvorov* and Andrew Melatos

  • School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia

  • *suvorova@student.unimelb.edu.au
  • amelatos@unimelb.edu.au

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Vol. 93, Iss. 2 — 15 January 2016

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