J 2025

Greybody factors in scalar-tensor gravity and beyond

ANTONIOU, Georgios; Thomas PAPPAS and Panagiota KANTI

Basic information

Original name

Greybody factors in scalar-tensor gravity and beyond

Authors

ANTONIOU, Georgios; Thomas PAPPAS and Panagiota KANTI

Edition

Physical Review D, 2025, 2470-0010

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 5.300 in 2024

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

UT WoS

001598138400002

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-105020644202

Keywords in English

quasi normal modes; dilatonic black hole;string theory;axion hair;absorption;emission;perturbations

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Abstract

In the original language

In the framework of the beyond Horndeski action, we consider three subtheories that support scalarized black-hole solutions, and look for modified characteristics compared to GR. We first study the propagation of massless scalar and vector test fields in the fixed background of an analytical spherically symmetric black hole derived in the context of a parity-symmetric beyond Horndeski theory, and show that the profiles of the effective gravitational potentials, greybody factors, absorption cross sections, and quasinormal frequencies exhibit distinct modifications as we move away from the GR limit. We then turn our attention to the perturbations of the gravitational field itself and adopt a full-theory analysis that takes into account the backreaction of the scalar field on the metric. Employing as background solutions scalarized black holes arising in the shift-symmetric Horndeski theory and in the quadratic-quartic-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory, we compute the greybody factors and quasinormal modes of the axial sector. In both theories, in direct correspondence to the form of the gravitational potential, which features multiple extremal points, we find modified (suppressed or nonmonotonic) greybody curves and altered quasinormal frequencies (smaller oscillating frequencies and larger damping times), especially as the hair-sourcing parameter increases.