Boson Cloud Atlas: Direct mass measurements of superradiance clouds near black holes

arXiv:2408.16051 · astro-ph.HE, hep-ph · Submitted 2024-08-28 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, hep-ph

Submitted: 2024-08-28

Updated: 2026-09-22

Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, version published in PRD, corrected factor 2 typo in Eqs. A2-A7

Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 113, 043015 (2026)

DOI: 10.1103/ww5b-gdkx

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Superradiance — 16× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AGN — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accretion Flows — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conservation Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Research Council — 1× in this paper
• Spectral Distortions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Self-interacting dark matter cusps around massive black holes
• Adiabatically compressed wave dark matter halo and intermediate-mass ratio inspirals
• Black holes as particle detectors: evolution of superradiant instabilities
• String Axiverse
• Cold and Fuzzy Dark Matter
• Repulsive Dark Matter
• Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter
• First star-forming structures in fuzzy cosmic filaments
• Black hole superradiance of self-interacting scalar fields
• SuperRad: Modeling the black hole superradiance gravitational waveform
• Gravitational radiation from an axion cloud around a black hole: Superradiant phase
• Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate Mass Black-Holes
• The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3
• Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies
• Observational Constraints on Black Hole Spin
• Discovering the QCD Axion with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
• Using the motion of S2 to constrain scalar clouds around SgrA*
• Using the motion of S2 to constrain vector clouds around SgrA*
• Exploring the String Axiverse with Precision Black Hole Physics
• The Spectra of Gravitational Atoms

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