Estimating the final spin of binary black holes merger in STU supergravity

Abstract

In this paper, we adopt the so-called Buonanno-Kidder-Lehner (BKL) recipe to estimate the final spin of a rotating binary black hole merger in STU supergravity. According to the BKL recipe, the final spin can be viewed as the sum of the individual spins plus the orbital angular momentum of the binary system which could be approximated as the angular momentum of a test particle orbiting at the innermost stable circular orbit around the final black hole. Unlike previous works, we consider the contribution of the orbital angular momentum of the binary system to the final spin by requiring the test particle to preserve the scaling symmetry in the Lagrangian of supergravity. We find some subtle differences between two cases corresponding to whether the symmetry is taken into account or not. In the equal initial spin configuration, when the initial black holes are non-spinning, the final spin of the merger is always larger than that in the case in which the symmetry is not imposed although the general behaviors are similar. The difference increases firstly and then decreases as the initial mass ratio approaches unity. Besides, as the initial spins exceed a threshold, the final spin is always smaller than that in the case where the scaling symmetry is not considered. The difference decreases constantly as the equal initial mass limit is approached. All these features exist in the merger of a binary STU black hole with different charge configurations. We also study the final spin's difference between different charge configurations and different initial spin configurations.