Accretion disks around black holes in scalar-tensor-vector gravity

Scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG) is an alternative theory of gravitation that has successfully explained the rotation curves of nearby galaxies, the dynamics of galactic clusters, and cosmological data without dark matter, but has hardly been tested in the strong gravity regime. In this work, we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Pérez, Daniela, Lopez Armengol, Federico Gaston, Romero, Gustavo Esteban
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/26719
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/26719
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Modified gravity
Accretion disks
Black holes
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:Scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG) is an alternative theory of gravitation that has successfully explained the rotation curves of nearby galaxies, the dynamics of galactic clusters, and cosmological data without dark matter, but has hardly been tested in the strong gravity regime. In this work, we aim at building radiative models of thin accretion disks for both Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in STVG theory. In particular, we study stable circular equatorial orbits around stellar and supermassive black holes in Schwarzschild and Kerr STVG spacetimes. We also calculate the temperature and luminosity distributions of accretion disks around these objects. We find that accretion disks in STVG around stellar and supermassive black holes are colder and less luminous than in GR. The spectral energy distributions obtained do not contradict current astronomical observations.