Probing near-horizon fluctuations with black hole binary mergers

Steven L. Liebling; Matthew Lippert; Michael Kavic

doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2018)176

Probing near-horizon fluctuations with black hole binary mergers

Steven L. Liebling
, Matthew Lippert
, Michael Kavic

Old Westbury

Long Island University

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Abstract

The strong version of the nonviolent nonlocality proposal of Giddings predicts “strong but soft” quantum metric fluctuations near black hole horizons in an attempt to resolve the information paradox. To study observable signatures of this proposal, we numerically solve Einstein’s equations modified by these fluctuations and analyze the gravitational wave signal from the inspiral and merger of two black holes. In a model of evolution for such fluctuations, we show that they lead to significant deviations in the observed waveform, even when the black holes are still well separated, and could potentially be observed by aLIGO.

Original language	English
Article number	176
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2018
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)176
State	Published - Mar 1 2018

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Black Holes
Models of Quantum Gravity

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