Signatures of ultralight bosons in the orbital eccentricity of binary black holes

M Bošković, M Koschnitzke, RA Porto - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We show that the existence of clouds of ultralight particles surrounding black holes during
their cosmological history as members of a binary system can leave a measurable imprint on …

Dynamical friction in gravitational atoms

GM Tomaselli, TFM Spieksma… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to superradiant instabilities, clouds of ultralight bosons can spontaneously grow around
rotating black holes, creating so-called" gravitational atoms". In this work, we study their …

Resonant history of gravitational atoms in black hole binaries

GM Tomaselli, TFM Spieksma, G Bertone - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Rotating black holes can produce superradiant clouds of ultralight bosons. When the black
hole is part of a binary system, its cloud can undergo resonances and ionization. These …

Self-interacting scalar dark matter around binary black holes

JC Aurrekoetxea, J Marsden, K Clough, PG Ferreira - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Gravitational waves can provide crucial insights about the environments in which black
holes live. In this work, we use numerical relativity simulations to study the behavior of self …

Black hole perturbation theory and multiple polylogarithms

G Aminov, P Arnaudo, G Bonelli, A Grassi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study black hole linear perturbation theory in a four-dimensional Schwarzschild
(anti) de Sitter background. When dealing with a positive cosmological constant, the …

Relativistic drag forces on black holes from scalar dark matter clouds of all sizes

D Traykova, R Vicente, K Clough, T Helfer, E Berti… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We use numerical simulations of scalar field dark matter evolving on a moving black hole
background to confirm the regime of validity of (semi) analytic expressions derived from first …

Signatures of ultralight bosons in compact binary inspiral and outspiral

Y Cao, Y Tang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Ultralight bosons are well-motivated particles from various physical and cosmological
theories and can be spontaneously produced during the superradiant process, forming a …

Evolution and detection of vector superradiant instabilities

YD Guo, N Jia, SS Bao, H Zhang, X Zhang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Ultralight vectors can extract energy and angular momentum from a Kerr black hole (BH)
due to superradiant instability, resulting in the formation of a BH-condensate system. In this …

Effect of Wave Dark Matter on Equal Mass Black Hole Mergers

JC Aurrekoetxea, K Clough, J Bamber, PG Ferreira - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
For dark matter to be detectable with gravitational waves from binary black holes, it must
reach higher than average densities in their vicinity. In the case of light (wavelike) dark …

Self-interacting axion clouds around rotating black holes in binary systems

T Takahashi, H Omiya, T Tanaka - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Superradiant instability can form clouds around rotating black holes (BHs) composed of
ultralight bosonic fields, such as axions. A BH with such a cloud in a binary system exhibits …