PIRSA:24010086 Scientific Series Other

DOI10.48660/24010086

Series: Training Programs (TEOSP)

Dailey, C. (2024). Reflecting boundary conditions in numerical relativity as a model for black hole echoes. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/24010086

Dailey, Conner. Reflecting boundary conditions in numerical relativity as a model for black hole echoes. Perimeter Institute, Jan. 22, 2024, https://pirsa.org/24010086 

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  doi = {10.48660/24010086},
  url = {https://pirsa.org/24010086},
  author = {Dailey, Conner},
  keywords = {Other},
  language = {en},
  title = {Reflecting boundary conditions in numerical  relativity as a model for black hole echoes},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2024},
  month = {jan},
  note = {PIRSA:24010086 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}

Abstract

Recently, there has been much interest in black hole echoes, based on the idea that there may be some mechanism (e.g., from quantum gravity) that waves/fields falling into a black hole could partially reflect off of an interface before reaching the horizon. There does not seem to be a good understanding of how to properly model a reflecting surface in numerical relativity, as the vast majority of the literature avoids the implementation of artificial boundaries, or applies transmitting boundary conditions. Here, we present a framework for reflecting a scalar field in a fully dynamical spherically symmetric spacetime, and implement it numerically. We study the evolution of a wave packet in this situation and its numerical convergence, including when the location of a reflecting boundary is very close to the horizon of a black hole. This opens the door to model exotic near-horizon physics within full numerical relativity.

 

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