Marginally Outer Trapped Tori in Black Hole Spacetimes

During a binary black hole merger, multiple intermediary marginally outer trapped tubes connect the initial pair of apparent horizons with the final (single) apparent horizon. The marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTSs) that foliate these tubes can have complicated geometries as well as non-spheri...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-12
Main Authors: Kam To Billy Sievers, Newhook, Liam, Muth, Sarah, Booth, Ivan, Hennigar, Robie A, Kunduri, Hari K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Black holes
Initial conditions
Symmetry
Topology
Toruses
Tubes
Wormholes
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Summary:During a binary black hole merger, multiple intermediary marginally outer trapped tubes connect the initial pair of apparent horizons with the final (single) apparent horizon. The marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTSs) that foliate these tubes can have complicated geometries as well as non-spherical topologies. In particular, toroidal MOTSs form inside both of the original black holes during the early stages of a head-on merger that starts from time-symmetric initial data [1]. We show that toroidal MOTSs also form in the maximal analytic extension of the Schwarzschild spacetime as Kruskal time advances from the \(T=0\) moment of time symmetry. As for the merger simulations, they cross the Einstein-Rosen bridge and are tightly sandwiched between the apparent horizons in the two asymptotic regions at early times. This strongly suggests that their formation is a consequence of the initial conditions rather than merger physics. Finally, we consider MOTSs of spherical topology in the Kruskal-Szekeres slicing and study their properties. All of these are contained within the apparent horizon but some do not enclose the wormhole.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2312.00769