Constraints on an ultralight scalar boson from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs using the stochastic gravitational-wave background

Yuan, Chen; Jiang, Yang; Huang, Qing-Guo

doi:10.1103/physrevd.106.023020

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“…The SGWB from BH-boson system was calculated by [14,15]. So far, there have been studies utilizing SGWB to constrain the parameters of ultralight bosons [11,12,14,17,39]. The authors of [17] and [39] provide the first search of SGWB in the first observing run of LIGO sourced by scalar and vector boson, respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nowadays, GWs have been used to test our basic understanding of different aspects of fundamental physics [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Especially, it provides entirely new avenues for the detection and constraints of ultralight bosons [3,4,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], such as spin-0 QCD axions, axion-like particles in string axiverse and spin-1 dark photons [19][20][21][22][23][24], which are important candidates of dark matter (DM).…”

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Probing ultralight tensor dark matter with the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO and Virgo's first three observing runs

Guo,

Jiang,

Huang

2024

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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Ultralight bosons are attractive dark-matter candidates and appear in various scenarios beyond standard model. They can induce superradiant instabilities around spinning black holes (BHs), extracting the energy and angular momentum from BHs, and then dissipate through monochromatic gravitational radiation, which become promising sources of gravitational wave detectors. In this letter, we focus on massive tensor fields coupled to BHs and compute the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds emitted by these sources. We then undertake a search for this background within the data from LIGO/Virgo O1∼O3 runs. Our analysis reveals no discernible evidence of such signals, allowing us to impose stringent limits on the mass range of tensor bosons. Specifically, we exclude the existence of tensor bosons with masses ranging from 4.0 × 10-14 to 2.0 × 10-12 eV at 95% confidence level.

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Probing ultralight tensor dark matter with the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO and Virgo's first three observing runs

Guo,

Jiang,

Huang

2024

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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“…Transitions between different states of the gravitational atom formed by the boson field can emit continuous-wave GWs [404], in contrast to the chirps produced by the usual compact-star mergers. Searches with LIGO O2 data [411] and LIGO O3 data [412,413] exclude some domain in the 𝑚 𝑎 -𝑀 BH plane, but no directly tangible QCD axion parameters. Still, this channel offers a future detection opportunity for very low-mass axions.…”

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Astrophysical Axion Bounds: The 2024 Edition

Raffelt,

Caputo

2024

Proceedings of 1st General Meeting and 1st Training School of the COST Action COSMIC WSIPers — PoS(COSMICWISPers)

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We review the current status of astrophysical bounds on QCD axions, primarily based on the observational effects of nonstandard energy losses on stars, including black-hole superradiance. Over the past few years, many of the traditional arguments have been reexamined both theoretically and using modern data and new ideas have been put forth. This compact review updates similar Lecture Notes written by one of us in 2006 [Lect. Notes Phys. 741 (2008.

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“…When the Compton wavelength of bosonic UDM is close to the same order as the BH radius, the energy and angular momentum of the BH would be transformed into the bosonic field, forming a macroscopic co-rotating boson cloud, which dissipates its energy through the emission of nearly monochromatic GWs. Therefore, the boson-BH system can act as a continuous GW source and is detectable by GW observations [42][43][44][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]. Until now, the null detection of GWs from the boson-BH systems has constrained bosonic UDM in various mass windows [11,20,43,48,52,53,58,[60][61][62].…”

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“…Therefore, the boson-BH system can act as a continuous GW source and is detectable by GW observations [42][43][44][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]. Until now, the null detection of GWs from the boson-BH systems has constrained bosonic UDM in various mass windows [11,20,43,48,52,53,58,[60][61][62].…”

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On the interaction between ultralight bosons and quantum-corrected black holes

Guo

Yuan

Huang

2023

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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Both ultralight dark matter and exploring the quantum nature of black holes are all topics of great interest in gravitational wave astronomy at present. The superradiant instability allows an exotic compact object (ECO) to be surrounded by an ultralight boson cloud, which leads to the emission of gravitational waves and further triggers rich dynamical effects. In this paper, we study the gravitational effects of superradiant instabilities by calculating the energy fluxes of gravitational waves emitted from ultralight scalar dark matter fields by solving the Teukolsky equation in the background of a massive ECO phenomenologically described by a Kerr geometry with a reflective boundary condition at its physical boundary. We find that both the amplitude and phase of the reflectivity will either suppress or enhance the energy flux of GWs by several orders of magnitude if Mμ ≳ 0.5 where M and μ are the mass of ECO and boson, respectively. However, the modifications to energy flux are negligible if Mμ ≲ 0.5. Our results suggest that reflectivity will play a significant role in the near-horizon physics of ECO.

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Constraints on an ultralight scalar boson from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs using the stochastic gravitational-wave background

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Probing ultralight tensor dark matter with the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO and Virgo's first three observing runs

Probing ultralight tensor dark matter with the stochastic gravitational-wave background from advanced LIGO and Virgo's first three observing runs

Astrophysical Axion Bounds: The 2024 Edition

On the interaction between ultralight bosons and quantum-corrected black holes

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