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Fast gravitational wave bursts from axion clumps
- Source :
- Physical Review
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- APS, 2021.
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Abstract
- The axion objects such as axion miniclusters and axion clouds around spinning black holes induce parametric resonances of electromagnetic waves through the axion-photon interaction. In particular, it has been known that the resonances from the axion with the mass around 10−6 eV may explain the observed fast radio bursts (FRBs). Here we argue that similar bursts of high frequency gravitational waves, which we call fast gravitational wave bursts (FGBs), are generated from axion clumps with the presence of gravitational Chern-Simons (CS) coupling. The typical frequency is half of the axion mass, which in general can range from kHz to GHz. We also discuss the secondary gravitational wave production associated with FRB, as well as the possible host objects of the axion clouds, such as primordial black holes with typical masses around 10−5 M⊙. Future detections of FGBs together with the observed FRBs are expected to provide more evidence for the axion.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Range (particle radiation)
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Gravitational wave
High Energy Physics::Phenomenology
Primordial black hole
Astrophysics
Coupling (probability)
01 natural sciences
Electromagnetic radiation
Gravitation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics::Theory
0103 physical sciences
Production (computer science)
010306 general physics
Axion
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7c0376c433ccaf6f4de75abb12046740