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Multipole moments of bumpy black holes

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.contributor MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
dc.contributor Vigeland, Sarah Jane
dc.contributor Vigeland, Sarah Jane
dc.creator Vigeland, Sarah Jane
dc.date 2011-06-01T13:39:18Z
dc.date 2011-06-01T13:39:18Z
dc.date 2010-11
dc.date 2010-08
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:07:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:07:09Z
dc.identifier 1550-7998
dc.identifier 1550-2368
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63161
dc.identifier Vigeland, Sarah J. “Multipole Moments of Bumpy Black Holes.” Physical Review D 82.10 (2010) : 104041. © 2010 The American Physical Society
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278817
dc.description General relativity predicts the existence of black holes, compact objects whose spacetimes depend only on their mass, spin, and charge in vacuum (the “no-hair” theorem). As various observations probe deeper into the strong fields of black hole candidates, it is becoming possible to test this prediction. Previous work suggested that such tests can be performed by measuring whether the multipolar structure of black hole candidates has the form that general relativity demands, and introduced a family of “bumpy black hole” spacetimes to be used for making these measurements. These spacetimes have generalized multipoles, where the deviation from the Kerr metric depends on the spacetime’s “bumpiness.” In this paper, we show how to compute the Geroch-Hansen moments of a bumpy black hole, demonstrating that there is a clean mapping between the deviations used in the bumpy black hole formalism and the Geroch-Hansen moments. We also extend our previous results to define bumpy black holes whose current moments, analogous to magnetic moments of electrodynamics, deviate from the canonical Kerr value.
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant No. PHY-0449884)
dc.description United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (NNX08AL42G)
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher American Physical Society
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.104041
dc.relation Physical Review D
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dc.source APS
dc.title Multipole moments of bumpy black holes
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dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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