The harder they fall, the bigger they become: tidal trapping of strings by microstate geometries
Abstract
We consider the fate of a massless (or ultra-relativistic massive) string probe propagating down the BTZ-like throat of a microstate geometry in the D1-D5 system. Far down the throat, the probe encounters large tidal forces that stretch and excite the string. The excitations are limited by the very short transit time through the region of large tidal force, leading to a controlled approximation to tidal stretching. We show that the amount of stretching is proportional to the incident energy, and that it robs the probe of the kinetic energy it would need to travel back up the throat. As a consequence, the probe is effectively trapped far down the throat and, through repeated return passes, scrambles into the ensemble of nearby microstates. We propose that this tidal trapping may lead to weak gravitational echoes.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Univ. Paris Saclay, Gif sur Yvette (France); Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); European Research Council (ERC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1730943
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009924; SC0011687; 787320
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2021; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Black Holes in String Theory; AdS-CFT Correspondence
Citation Formats
Martinec, Emil J., and Warner, Nicholas P. The harder they fall, the bigger they become: tidal trapping of strings by microstate geometries. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep04(2021)259.
Martinec, Emil J., & Warner, Nicholas P. The harder they fall, the bigger they become: tidal trapping of strings by microstate geometries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2021)259
Martinec, Emil J., and Warner, Nicholas P. Tue .
"The harder they fall, the bigger they become: tidal trapping of strings by microstate geometries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2021)259. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1730943.
@article{osti_1730943,
title = {The harder they fall, the bigger they become: tidal trapping of strings by microstate geometries},
author = {Martinec, Emil J. and Warner, Nicholas P.},
abstractNote = {We consider the fate of a massless (or ultra-relativistic massive) string probe propagating down the BTZ-like throat of a microstate geometry in the D1-D5 system. Far down the throat, the probe encounters large tidal forces that stretch and excite the string. The excitations are limited by the very short transit time through the region of large tidal force, leading to a controlled approximation to tidal stretching. We show that the amount of stretching is proportional to the incident energy, and that it robs the probe of the kinetic energy it would need to travel back up the throat. As a consequence, the probe is effectively trapped far down the throat and, through repeated return passes, scrambles into the ensemble of nearby microstates. We propose that this tidal trapping may lead to weak gravitational echoes.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep04(2021)259},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 4,
volume = 2021,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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