PIRSA ID: 21120023
Series:
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Cosmology
End date: 2021-12-16
Speaker(s): Leah Jenks Brown University
In this talk I will give an overview of recent and ongoing work regarding rotating black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity. dCS gravity is a well motivated modified theory of gravity which has been extensively studied in gravitational and cosmological contexts. I will first discuss unique geometric structures, `the Chern-Simons caps,' which slowly rotating black holes in dCS gravity were recently found to possess. Motivated by the dCS caps, I will then discuss superradiance in the context of slowly rotating dCS black holes and show that there are corrections to the usual solution for a Kerr black hole. Lastly, I will comment on the observable implications for these corrections and point towards avenues for future work.
Zoom Link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/95228483630?pwd=dWk1c3p5dUU3RXJrNEhIT2M3Tk1Kdz09