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Accretion disks amplify the tidal response of exotic compact objects but leave their logarithmic compactness signature intact.

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load-bearing objection Controlled extension showing ECO log-compactness Love numbers survive a thin-disk environment; magnitudes get a large b-dependent boost—solid math, incremental novelty, one physical caveat on disk back-reaction. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2607.24938 v1 pith:C5VCQFFN submitted 2026-07-27 gr-qc astro-ph.HE

Tidal deformation of an accreting compact object

Avijit Chowdhury , Chiranjeeb Singha , Kazuharu Bamba , Sumanta Chakraborty This is my paper
classification gr-qc astro-ph.HE PACS 04.70.-s04.30.-w04.25.Nx97.10.Gz
keywords tidal Love numbersexotic compact objectsaccretion diskstidal deformabilityhorizonless compact objectsscalar perturbationsspin-1 perturbationsstrong-field gravity
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This paper asks whether a realistic accretion disk can erase the distinctive tidal fingerprint of a horizonless exotic compact object (ECO). Working with a Schwarzschild-like ECO wrapped in a thin, self-gravitating quasi-stationary disk, the authors compute static scalar and spin-1 Love numbers. They find that the characteristic log dependence on how close the ECO surface sits to the would-be horizon survives the disk; the disk mainly multiplies the overall size of the response, often by large powers of the disk’s radial scale. A sympathetic reader cares because gravitational-wave measurements of tides are already used to test whether compact objects have horizons. If the near-horizon log signature remains readable even when matter is present, environmental contamination need not make horizonless objects indistinguishable from black holes.

Core claim

For perfectly reflecting Schwarzschild-like ECOs, the logarithmic dependence of static scalar and spin-1 Love numbers on compactness, set by near-horizon boundary conditions, remains intact in the presence of a quasi-stationary thin accretion disk; the disk primarily amplifies the overall magnitude of the response, scaling as a power of the disk scale radius, without washing out the compactness log.

What carries the argument

A Weyl-class thin-disk solution superposed on Schwarzschild (linear in disk-to-central mass ratio), reduced to a deformed Schwarzschild metric; static scalar and Maxwell perturbations are then expanded to first order in that ratio and matched with Dirichlet or Neumann conditions at the ECO surface to extract Love numbers.

Load-bearing premise

The ECO surface is assumed not to rearrange the disk, so the background geometry is taken identical to the black-hole-plus-disk solution and reflectivity enters only through the perturbation boundary conditions.

What would settle it

Compute or measure the ratio of ECO-plus-disk to black-hole-plus-disk Love numbers versus inverse log compactness for fixed disk mass and scale; if the ratio ceases to be linear in 1/|log compactness| for highly compact, perfectly reflecting objects, the claim fails.

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If this is right

  • Environmental amplification of Love numbers can dominate waveform corrections for large disk scales, so tidal measurements must marginalize over disk parameters.
  • The surviving log-compactness signature still offers a route, under suitable conditions, to separate horizonless ECOs from black holes in gravitational-wave data.
  • Scalar and spin-1 results already show that even a dilute disk can raise deformability by orders of magnitude, motivating inclusion of accretion in tidal waveform models.
  • Running Love numbers appear once the disk metric carries angular dependence, adding a radial-log term that must be tracked in multipole matching.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If gravitational (spin-2) Love numbers follow the same pattern, current binary-inspiral templates that ignore disks may systematically mis-estimate compactness for accreting horizonless objects.
  • A natural next test is whether a slowly spinning ECO-plus-disk still preserves the log signature once frame-dragging couples disk and surface reflectivity.
  • Pile-up of matter against a reflective surface could generate shocks that back-react on the metric, potentially converting the pure log into a different functional form observable in both tides and ringdown.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 10 minor

Summary. The manuscript computes the static scalar (spin-0) and spin-1 Love numbers (LNs) of a Schwarzschild-like exotic compact object (ECO) embedded in a quasi-stationary, self-gravitating thin accretion disk, working perturbatively in the disk-to-central mass ratio ε = Md/M and using the Weyl-class BH–disk solutions of Refs. [79–81]. The ECO enters only through reflective boundary conditions (R = ±1, i.e. Dirichlet/Neumann) imposed at the surface r0 = 2M(1+ε̃). The central claims are: (i) the characteristic 1/log ε̃ scaling of the static response of a perfectly reflecting ECO survives the presence of the disk (Fig. 1, Figs. 4–5, Eqs. 45, 48, 62, 66–67); (ii) the disk amplifies the magnitude of the response, with large-b scalings b^{2ℓ−1} (scalar) and b^4 for the spin-1 running coefficient η20. The analysis combines closed-form zeroth-order ECO solutions (Eqs. 44, 61), an analytic cross-check of the accreting-BH scalar LN at jt = 0 (Eq. 42) against Ref. [60], and a numerical near-zone/far-zone matching procedure (§III.A.2) for the accreting ECO.

Significance. If the results hold, they extend the "environmental effects on tidal deformability" program to horizonless objects and answer a question of direct observational interest: whether accretion can mask the logarithmic compactness signature that distinguishes ECOs from black holes in gravitational-wave phasing. The paper has several concrete strengths worth naming: the isolated-ECO limits (Eqs. 45–46 and 62) reproduce known results [11, 43]; the accreting-BH jt = 0 scalar LN (Eq. 42) is obtained analytically and checked against the Cannizzaro–De Luca–Pani computation [60], with the b³ vs b⁴ discrepancy traced to the master-function convention; the zeroth-order ECO solutions (Eqs. 44, 61) are given in closed form; and the paper makes falsifiable scaling predictions (1/log ε̃ persistence, b^{2ℓ−1}, b⁴) rather than purely numerical statements. The internal logic of the log-compactness scaling is secure: the ln ε̃ originates from the near-surface homogeneous solution via the coth⁻¹(2ε̃+1) structure in Eq. (44), and any O(ε̃) deformation of the background enters only at O(εε̃), which is subleading to the log. The main weaknesses are in the quantification of the numerical extraction (the ε̃-s

major comments (4)
  1. [III.A.1, Eqs. (42)–(43); IV, Figs. 2–3, 6–7; Eq. (67)] The statement that 'the disk primarily amplifies the overall magnitude significantly' (abstract, §V) is only partly convention-independent. The authors themselves note (discussion after Eq. 43) that the accreting-BH scalar LN scales as b³ in their r-coordinate extraction but as b⁴ in the tortoise-coordinate, redefined-master-function extraction of Ref. [60], and describe this difference as 'inherent when the system has an additional length scale.' This is precisely the point that needs more care: the 1/log ε̃ scaling (the paper's main result) is robust, but the reported b-scalings — b^{2ℓ−1} in Figs. 2–3 and b⁴ for η20 in Fig. 7 — are properties of a specific definition of the extracted LN, and the physically observable combination entering binary phasing must be definition-independent. Please (i) state explicitly and up front which asymptotic quantity (the field Ψ itself, in Schwarzschi
  2. [IV, Figs. 1, 4–5; III.A.2, Eq. (47)] The evidence for the persistence of the log-ε̃ scaling is numerical and is extracted from very small fractional signals: in Fig. 1 the ratio Rk22 varies at the 10⁻⁴ level, and in Figs. 4–5 the quantities ζ20 and η20 (of order ±10⁴) vary only at the 10⁻⁷–10⁻⁸ relative level across the plotted range of 1/|log ε̃|. The procedure of §III.A.2 (near-zone numerical integration matched to the truncated far-zone ansatz Eq. (47) with N = 10) is described, but no convergence or error diagnostics are shown: independence of the matching radius is asserted but not demonstrated, the truncation order is fixed without a convergence test, and the working precision of the ODE integration is not stated. Since the linear-in-|log ε̃|⁻¹ claims rest on resolving these tiny variations, the paper needs (i) a matching-radius scan and N-convergence study at least for representative parameters, and (ii) a consistenc
  3. [II, paragraph after Eq. (10); abstract; V] The model assumption that the disk equilibrium is identical to the BH–disk solution — 'it is safe to assume that the presence of the surface does not modify the equilibrium configuration of the thin disk' — is load-bearing and deserves sharper framing. Within the adopted counter-rotating geodesic-dust model (footnote 2) there is no inflow, so the assumption is consistent by construction; and indeed any O(ε̃) back-reaction of the surface on the background would enter the LN only at O(εε̃), subleading to the log, so the scaling claim is safe against small perturbations of the disk. The genuine limitation is different: for any viscous, radiating inflow, a perfectly reflecting surface at r0 blocks absorption and generically drives O(1) rearrangement near the surface (pile-up, shocks), as the authors themselves acknowledge in §V with refs. [86, 94]. Such an O(1) change would compete with the
  4. [IV.A, Table I; Eq. (66)] Table I is the sole evidence presented for the jt > 0 'running LN' coefficients (Eq. 66), and its convergence pattern in jt is anomalous: A22 goes from −42.01 (jt = 1) to −86.45 (jt = 2) to +25.48 (jt = 4) before settling near −14 for jt = 6–10, with the same jt = 4 outlier in B22 (−2.70 vs 24.28 at jt = 1–2 and 6.74 at jt ≥ 6). A sign change followed by apparent convergence suggests either a numerical instability in the matching at jt = 4 or slow/non-monotonic convergence of the |cos θ|^j expansion (Eq. 22). Please explain the jt = 4 row, state the matching radius and truncation used, and provide a convergence diagnostic; otherwise the jt > 0 entries of Table I (and the running-LN statements built on them) are hard to assess.
minor comments (10)
  1. [II, Eq. (3)] Eq. (3): the first equation reads ∂ρλ = ρ[(∂ρν)² − (∂ρν)²], which is identically zero; the second term should be (∂zν)².
  2. [III.B.1, Eqs. (51)–(52)] Notation collision: in Eqs. (51)–(52) R denotes a characteristic length scale ('R is any characteristic length scale'), while throughout §III.A.2 and the figures R = ±1 denotes reflectivity. Please rename one of them.
  3. [IV, Table I; Eqs. (66)–(67)] Table I uses rh = 1 while Eq. (B1) and the text set rh = 2M; please state the units (M = 1/2?) and the precise definition of the renormalization scale rh entering Eqs. (66)–(67), and how Aℓmz, Bℓmz change under rh → rh′.
  4. [IV, Figs. 1–5] Figure labels: Figs. 2–3 appear to use 'ϵ̃' (rendered as ϵ with a tilde) in the legends, but in Fig. 1 the legend 'ϛ=10, 20, 50' presumably denotes b; please make all axis/legend symbols consistent with the text (ε, ε̃, b). Captions of Figs. 4 and 5 contain 'pannel'.
  5. [II, Eq. (22)] Eq. (22): clarify whether the expansion is in |cos θ|^j or |cos^j θ|, and comment on how the absolute value (discontinuous derivatives at the equator, as befits the thin disk) affects the perturbation theory at the disk plane for jt > 0.
  6. [General] Inconsistent capitalization of 'Logarithmic' throughout (e.g., §I, §III.A.2, §IV); 'upto' should be 'up to' (several instances, e.g., before Eqs. 36–37, 48).
  7. [II, footnote 2] Footnote 2 introduces the counter-rotating dust model; it would help the reader to state there explicitly that this model has no net inflow, since this is what makes the frozen-disk-equilibrium assumption internally consistent (cf. major comment 3).
  8. [III.A.2] §III.A.2: please report the actual matching radius (or range) used for Figs. 1–7 and the value of N, rather than only in footnote 4; a short convergence statement would strengthen the section (cf. major comment 2).
  9. [III.A.1, Eqs. (42)–(43)] When comparing with Ref. [60] after Eq. (43), state explicitly that the b⁴ result there was obtained with a Schrödinger-like master variable in tortoise coordinates, and whether Eq. (42) reduces to their result under the corresponding redefinition; this would preempt confusion about the discrepancy.
  10. [III.B] The spin-1 analysis is restricted to jt = 0 for simplicity (§III.B), while the scalar sector explores jt up to 10; a sentence explaining why the jt = 0 restriction is expected to capture the qualitative disk dependence also for spin-1 (or noting this as a limitation) would be useful.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: Love numbers are extracted from asymptotic coefficients of solved field equations with stated BCs; the log-compactness scaling is not fitted or definitionally forced.

full rationale

The central claim—that the characteristic ln ε̃ dependence of static scalar and spin-1 Love numbers for perfectly reflecting ECOs survives a thin accretion disk, while the disk mainly rescales the overall magnitude—is obtained by solving the massless KG / Maxwell equations on a fixed Weyl-superposed Schwarzschild+disk background (linear in ε=Md/M), imposing Dirichlet/Neumann conditions at r0=2M(1+ε̃), and reading LNs from the ratio of decaying to growing asymptotic coefficients (Eqs. 45–48, 51–52, 62, 66–67; Figs. 1, 4–5). The isolated-ECO limits reproduce externally established results, and the accreting-BH cross-check matches an independent computation up to a known coordinate-rescaling difference. Disk parameters (b, ε, m, n) and reflectivity R are inputs, not fitted outputs. No step reduces a claimed prediction to its own definition, a data fit, or a load-bearing self-citation uniqueness theorem. The modelling assumption that the disk equilibrium is identical to the BH-disk solution is a physical idealization (acknowledged in §II and §V), not a circular derivation. Score 0; steps empty.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 6 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard GR plus a stack of modeling choices: Weyl thin-disk superposition at linear disk mass, static reflective BCs as the zero-frequency limit of ECO reflectivity, no back-reaction of the surface on the disk, and scalar/spin-1 proxies. Free parameters are environmental and phenomenological (disk scale b, mass ratio ε, model integers m,n, angular truncation jt, compactness ε̃, R=±1). No new particles or forces are invented; ECOs and inverted Kuzmin–Toomre/Vogt–Letelier disks are imported from the literature.

free parameters (5)
  • b (disk characteristic scale, often b/2M)
    Controls disk radial extent and enters LN magnitude as a power law (e.g. ~b^3 for scalar ℓ=mz=2). Chosen by hand in figures (b=12,20, etc.); not fixed by data.
  • ε = Md/M = 0.01 in numerical figures
    Disk-to-object mass ratio; expansion parameter kept ≪1 (figures use 0.01). Sets overall amplitude of environmental correction.
  • ε̃ (ECO surface compactness parameter)
    Locates the reflective surface at r0=2M(1+ε̃); the log ε̃ scaling is the signal. Scanned over many orders (10^{-8} to 10^{-25} in plots).
  • R (surface reflectivity, static limit ±1) = ±1
    Selects Dirichlet (R=1) vs Neumann (R=-1) BCs; log appears only for R=1 in the scalar sector at leading order. Phenomenological, not derived from microphysics.
  • disk model integers (m,n) and jt truncation = {m,n}={0,1}; jt=0 primary
    Fix density profile and angular expansion of ν_disk, λ_int. Paper mainly uses {m,n}={0,1} and jt=0, with exploratory jt>0 in Table I.
axioms (6)
  • domain assumption Vacuum GR in 4D with static axisymmetric Weyl superposition: ν linear, λ from nonlinear quadrature; exterior is deformed Schwarzschild plus disk at O(ε).
    §II, Eqs. 2–10, 18–21. Standard for this disk class but excludes spin, time dependence, and strong disk self-gravity beyond linear ε.
  • domain assumption Accretion timescale ≫ binary orbital and perturbation timescales, so the background may be treated as static.
    §I–II and footnote on accretion timescales; load-bearing for dropping time-dependent disk structure.
  • ad hoc to paper For ε̃≪1 the ECO surface does not modify the thin-disk equilibrium configuration used for BHs.
    Stated explicitly after Eq. 10; enables isolation of reflectivity effects but is the main structural vulnerability.
  • domain assumption Static reflectivity takes only R=±1 (Dirichlet/Neumann), interpreted as the zero-frequency limit of dynamical reflectivity.
    §III.A.2 citing [43]; restricts the ECO model space.
  • ad hoc to paper Scalar and spin-1 static responses capture the essential environmental sensitivity of tidal deformability (gravitational sector deferred).
    §III opening and §V; used to justify not computing spin-2 LNs while still discussing GW distinguishability.
  • standard math Associated Legendre completeness and linear response in ε suffice to reduce the non-separable KG/Maxwell operators to radial ODEs with known sources.
    §III.A Eqs. 24–39; standard perturbation theory on a weakly deformed background.

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Tidal deformation of a compact object serves as a sensitive probe of the strong-gravity regime and nature of the compact object. It captures how a compact object responds to the external perturbing field of a companion. In realistic astrophysical settings, compact objects are typically immersed in matter-rich environments, which can significantly alter the response. In this work, we investigate the static deformability of Schwarzschild-like exotic compact objects (ECOs) embedded in a quasi-stationary, self-gravitating thin accretion disk. By modelling the external spacetime with a relativistic thin-disk solution, we isolate environmental contributions to the scalar and spin-1 response while maintaining analytical control. We show that, for perfectly reflecting ECOs, the characteristic logarithmic dependence of the scalar and spin-1 response on compactness, set by near-horizon physics, remains intact even in the presence of accretion. The disk primarily amplifies the overall magnitude of the response significantly. These findings highlight that environmental effects can seriously impact tidal signatures, while still permitting, under suitable conditions, the distinguishability of horizonless compact objects from black holes in gravitational-wave observations.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.24938 by Avijit Chowdhury, Chiranjeeb Singha, Kazuharu Bamba, Sumanta Chakraborty.

Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The figure displays the quantity ∆k ECO ℓmz = [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Static LNs of an accreting ECO, rescaled with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: , we plot the above fractional change in the LNs of an accreting ECO due to the accretion disk with the dimensionless scale factor b for jt = 0 and R = −1. From [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Variation of η20 in the axial (top panel) and polar sector (bottom pannel) for an accreting ECO (R = 1), plotted with 1/ |log ˜ϵ| for the quadrupolar mode ℓ = 2, mz = 0, ϵ = 0.01 and b = 20 for the spin-1 case. ECOs, both ζ20 and η20 are linear in |log eϵ| −1 . Thus, the characteristic logarithmic sensitivity of static LNs on the ECO compactness, see Eq. (62), persists even in the presence of an accretion … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Variation of ζ20 in the axial (top panel) and polar sector (bottom pannel) for an accreting ECO (R = 1), plotted with 1/ |log ˜ϵ| for the quadrupolar mode ℓ = 2, mz = 0, ϵ = 0.01 and b = 20 for the spin-1 case. coordinate r, namely, k ECO+Acc 20 = ζ20 + η20 log  r rh  . (67) Note that the above Logarithmic dependence holds for generic choices of jt, including jt = 0. We plot ζ20 and η20 with |log eϵ| −1 … view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The figure displays the quantity fη20 = η20/kECO 20 , shown as a function of b at fixed ϵ˜ = 10−15 with l = 2, mz = 0, ϵ = 0.01 and R = ±1 for the spin-1 case. ers of the cos θ, where θ is the usual angle in a spherically symmetric coordinate system. The simplest case corre￾sponds to the situation in which the gravitational field of the accretion disk is independent of cos θ (refers to jt = 0). This allows… view at source ↗

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