Shadow constraints of charged black hole with scalar hair and gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals

TL;DR

This paper constrains the properties of charged black holes with scalar hair using EHT observations and assesses the potential of LISA gravitational wave detections to test these exotic black hole models.

Contribution

It provides the first combined analysis of EHT shadow data and EMRI gravitational wave signals to constrain scalar hair and charge in charged black holes within EMCS theory.

Findings

EHT observations constrain scalar hair to within approximately 0.46 of the black hole mass.

LISA can detect scalar hair at the order of 10^-4 and charge at the order of 10^-2 for supermassive black holes.

Gravitational wave detection offers far greater sensitivity than current shadow observations.

Abstract

Black hole (BH) shadow observations and gravitational wave astronomy have become crucial approaches for exploring BH physics and testing gravitational theories in extreme environments. This paper investigates the charged black hole with scalar hair (CBH-SH) derived from the Einstein-Maxwell-conformal coupled scalar (EMCS) theory. We first constrain the parameter space $(Q/M, s/M^2)$ of the BH using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87* and Sgr A*. The results show that M87* provides stronger constraints on positive scalar hair, constraining the scalar hair $s$ within $0\le s/M^2\le0.4632$ and the charge $Q$ within the range $0\le Q/M\le0.6806$. In contrast, Sgr A* imposes tighter constraints on negative scalar hair. When $Q$ approaches zero, $s$ is constrained within the range $0\geq s/M^2\geq-0.0277$. Overall, EHT observations can provide constraints at most on the order of $\mathcal{O}\left({10}^{-1}\right)$. Subsequently, we construct extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) systems and calculate their gravitational waves to assess the detection capability of the LISA detector for these BHs. The results indicate that for central BHs of $M={10}^6M_\odot$, LISA is expected to detect scalar hair $s/M^2$ at the $\mathcal{O}\left({10}^{-4}\right)$ level and charge $Q/M$ at the $\mathcal{O}\left({10}^{-2}\right)$ level, with detection sensitivity far exceeding the current EHT capabilities. This demonstrates the immense potential of EMRI gravitational wave observations in testing EMCS theory.