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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.024031
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- University of Waterloo
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- JSPS Overseas Research Fellowships
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation
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One of the most triumphant predictions of the theory of general relativity was the recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational-wave (GW) signals produced in binary black hole (BH) mergers. However, it is suggested that exotic compact objects, proposed in quantum gravity models of BHs, may produce similar classical GW waveforms, followed by delayed repeating echoes. In a companion paper [1], we have presented different arguments for a universal Boltzmann reflectivity of quantum BH horizons. Here, we investigate the resulting echoes from this prescription. We derive corresponding quasinormal modes (QNMs) for quantum BHs analytically, and show how their initial conditions can be related to the QNMs of classical BHs. Ergoregion instability is suppressed by the imperfect reflectivity. We then compare the analytic and numerical predictions for echoes in real time, verifying their consistency. In particular, we find that the amplitudes of the first similar to 20 echoes decay inversely with time, while the subsequent echoes decay exponentially. Finally, we present predictions for the signal-to-noise ratio of echoes for spinning BHs, which should be imminently detectable for massive remnants, subject to the uncertainty in the nonlinear initial conditions of the BH merger.
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