Source-Driven Tails in Kerr Spacetime: Nonlinear effects in Late-Time Behavior

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Abstract

We present the long-duration time-domain simulations of scalar-field tails in Kerr spacetimes driven by \emph{outgoing} multipolar sources. Extending the recent work in the literature from Schwarzschild to rotating black holes, we evolve sources with ℓ′={0,1,2,3,4}\ell'=\{0,1,2,3,4\} on backgrounds with dimensionless spin a/M={0.0,0.8,1.0}a/M=\{0.0, 0.8, 1.0\} and extract the late-time decay rates of measured modes ℓ≤4\ell\le4 for a nonlinearity-inspired outgoing source with a 1/r21/r^2 fall-off. In all cases we find the inverse power-law index pℓℓ′p_{\ell\ell'} to be larger than the source-free Price law values by one unit, i.e. pℓℓ′sourced=pℓℓ′Price+1p^{\text{sourced}}_{\ell\ell'} = p^{\text{Price}}_{\ell\ell'} + 1. We also include a power-law index value computation for a similar source-driven gravitational wave case (ℓ,m)=(4,4)(\ell,m)=(4,4) and confirm closely related results in the recent literature.

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