PIRSA:18050036

Gravitational wave searches for ultralight bosons

Brito, R. (2018). Gravitational wave searches for ultralight bosons. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/18050036

Brito, Richard. Gravitational wave searches for ultralight bosons. Perimeter Institute, May. 11, 2018, https://pirsa.org/18050036 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:18050036,
            doi = {10.48660/18050036},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/18050036},
            author = {Brito, Richard},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Gravitational wave searches for ultralight bosons},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2018},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:18050036 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Richard Brito Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

Talk number PIRSA:18050036
DOI 10.48660/18050036
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

Ultralight bosons can induce superradiant instabilities in spinning black holes, tapping their rotational energy to trigger the growth of a bosonic condensate. In this talk I will give an overview on superradiance and its applications focusing on the observational imprints of this process around spinning black holes which include: (i) the emission of monochromatic gravitational waves emitted by bosonic condensate formed through superradiant instabilities, potentially observable by current and future gravitational-wave detectors, and (ii) the formation of “gaps” in the spin versus mass plane of astrophysical black holes.