DOAJ Open Access 2022

Probing bumblebee gravity with black hole X-ray data

Jiale Gu Shafqat Riaz Askar B. Abdikamalov Dimitry Ayzenberg Cosimo Bambi

Abstrak

Abstract Bumblebee gravity is one of the simplest gravity theories with spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking. Since we know a rotating black hole solution in bumblebee gravity, we can potentially test this model with the available astrophysical observations of black holes. In this work, we construct a reflection model in bumblebee gravity and we use our model to analyze the reflection features of a NuSTAR spectrum of the Galactic black hole EXO 1846-031 in order to constrain the Lorentz-violating parameter $$\ell $$ ℓ . We find that the analysis of the reflection features in the spectrum of EXO 1846-031 cannot constrain the parameter $$\ell $$ ℓ because of a very strong degeneracy between the estimates of $$\ell $$ ℓ and of the black hole spin parameter $$a_*$$ a ∗ . Such a degeneracy may be broken by combining other observations.

Penulis (5)

J

Jiale Gu

S

Shafqat Riaz

A

Askar B. Abdikamalov

D

Dimitry Ayzenberg

C

Cosimo Bambi

Format Sitasi

Gu, J., Riaz, S., Abdikamalov, A.B., Ayzenberg, D., Bambi, C. (2022). Probing bumblebee gravity with black hole X-ray data. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10686-2

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Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2022
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DOAJ
DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10686-2
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Open Access ✓