Searching for ultra-light bosons and constraining black hole spin distributions with stellar tidal disruption events

Peizhi Du; Daniel Egaña-Ugrinovic; Rouven Essig; Giacomo Fragione; Rosalba Perna

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32301-4

Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Searching for ultra-light bosons and constraining black hole spin distributions with stellar tidal disruption events

Peizhi Du,
Daniel Egaña-Ugrinovic,
Rouven Essig,
Giacomo Fragione,
Rosalba Perna

Affiliations

Peizhi Du: C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University
Daniel Egaña-Ugrinovic: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Rouven Essig: C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University
Giacomo Fragione: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
Rosalba Perna: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32301-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when stars pass close enough to supermassive black holes. Here, the authors show that future searches TDEs have potential to uncover the existence of ultralight bosons.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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