23–25 Oct 2024
University of Pisa, Polo Fibonacci Ed. C, Dipartimento di Informatica, Aula Gerace
Europe/Rome timezone

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by boson clouds

24 Oct 2024, 15:00
30m
Aula Gerace (University of Pisa, Polo Fibonacci Ed. C, Dipartimento di Informatica, Aula Gerace)

Aula Gerace

University of Pisa, Polo Fibonacci Ed. C, Dipartimento di Informatica, Aula Gerace

Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127, Pisa, Italy
Invited speaker talk Fundamental Physics

Speaker

Richard Brito

Description

Boson clouds can form through superradiant instabilities of ultralight bosons around spinning black holes. The formation of boson clouds leads to a number of potentially detectable signatures, among them the possibility that they can affect the dynamics of binary black hole systems. In this talk I will review recent work aiming at studying extreme-mass-ratio systems in which a small compact object evolves around a massive black hole surrounded by a boson cloud.

Primary author

Richard Brito

Presentation materials