Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2020)

Hawking radiation of extended objects

  • George Johnson,
  • John March-Russell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2020)205
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 4
pp. 1 – 16

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Abstract We compute the effects on the temperature and precise spectrum of Hawking radiation from a Schwarzschild black hole when the emitted object is taken to be spatially extended. We find that in the low-momentum regime, the power emitted is exponentially suppressed for sufficiently large radiated objects, or sufficiently small black holes, though the temperature of emission is unchanged. We numerically determine the magnitude of this suppression as a function of the size and mass of the object and the black hole, and discuss the implications for various extended objects in nature.

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