
TL;DR
This paper investigates how extra-dimensional effects influence superradiant instabilities around rotating black strings, revealing that Kaluza-Klein momentum can significantly enhance the growth rate of these instabilities, with implications for astrophysical observations.
Contribution
It demonstrates analytically and numerically that Kaluza-Klein momentum can boost superradiant instability growth rates in black string geometries, providing new insights into extra-dimensional effects on black hole physics.
Findings
Kaluza-Klein momentum can increase the maximum growth rate of superradiant instabilities by over 50%.
The zero-mode is primarily responsible for superradiant instabilities in realistic models.
Extra-dimensional effects modify the mass bounds for superradiant bound states.
Abstract
We study the formation of superradiant bound states for massive scalar fields in five-dimensional rotating black string geometries with a non-vanishing Kaluza-Klein momentum along the compact direction. Even though all Kaluza-Klein modes may form bound states in this geometry, in realistic extra-dimensional models and astrophysical black holes only the zero-mode is sufficiently light for superradiant instabilities to develop, provided the field has a small but non-vanishing mass, as for example for axion-like particles. We use analytical and numerical methods to show that, although the Kaluza-Klein momentum decreases the upper bound on the field mass for an instability to develop, it may enhance its maximum growth rate by more than 50%, thus boosting the black hole bomb mechanism. We discuss the possible observational consequences of this result and its potential as an astrophysical…
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