Pith. sign in

REVIEW 5 cited by

Construction and physical properties of Kerr black holes with scalar hair

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1501.04319 v2 pith:AJQZQGMG submitted 2015-01-18 gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-th

Construction and physical properties of Kerr black holes with scalar hair

classification gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-th
keywords blackholespropertiesscalarsolutionsfieldhairkerr
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

Kerr black holes with scalar hair are solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon field equations describing regular (on and outside an event horizon), asymptotically flat black holes with scalar hair (arXiv:1403.2757). These black holes interpolate continuously between the Kerr solution and rotating boson stars in D=4 spacetime dimensions. Here we provide details on their construction, discussing properties of the ansatz, the field equations, the boundary conditions and the numerical strategy. Then, we present an overview of the parameter space of the solutions, and describe in detail the space-time structure of the black holes exterior geometry and of the scalar field for a sample of reference solutions. Phenomenological properties of potential astrophysical interest are also discussed, and the stability properties and possible generalizations are commented on. As supplementary material to this paper we make available numerical data files for the sample of reference solutions discussed, for public use.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 5 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Splitting the Gravitational Atom: Instabilities of Black Holes with Synchronized or Resonant Hair

    gr-qc 2025-09 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Black holes with synchronized or resonant scalar hair exhibit dynamical splitting in which the horizon is ejected from the bosonic cloud center in the very hairy regime.

  2. Distorting Kerr Images with Parity-Odd Scalar Hair

    gr-qc 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Numerical study of thin accretion disk images shows that increasing parity-odd scalar hair on Kerr black holes shrinks and distorts the photon ring and shadow, producing multiple disconnected shadows and chaotic lensi...

  3. Stationary scalar clouds around a rotating Kalb-Ramond BTZ black hole

    gr-qc 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Stationary scalar clouds exist around rotating KR BTZ black holes at superradiant threshold ω=mΩ_H, with positive KR parameter allowing nonmonotonic existence lines under Robin boundaries.

  4. Testing General Relativity with Present and Future Astrophysical Observations

    gr-qc 2015-01 accept novelty 2.0

    A review summarizing modified theories of gravity, their effects on compact objects, existing bounds from astrophysical observations, and the promise of future gravitational wave tests for strong-field gravity.

  5. Dynamical Boson Stars

    gr-qc 2012-02 unverdicted novelty 2.0

    Boson stars are particle-like solutions in general relativity that model dark matter, black hole mimickers, and binary systems.