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Detecting scalar fields with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals

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arxiv 2004.11895 v3 pith:XALVI3NF submitted 2020-04-24 gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-th

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We study Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs), during which a small body spirals into a supermassive black hole, in gravity theories with additional scalar fields. We first argue that no-hair theorems and the properties of known theories that manage to circumvent them introduce a drastic simplification to the problem: the effects of the scalar on supermassive black holes, if any, are mostly negligible for EMRIs in vast classes of theories. We then exploit this simplification to model the inspiral perturbatively and we demonstrate that the scalar charge of the small body leaves a significant imprint on gravitational wave emission. Although much higher precision is needed for waveform modelling, our results strongly suggest that this imprint is observable with LISA, rendering EMRIs promising probes of scalar fields.

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