Inverse-chirp signals and spontaneous scalarisation with self-interacting potentials in stellar collapse
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We study how the gravitational wave signal from stellar collapse in scalar-tensor gravity varies under the influence of scalar self-interaction. To this end, we extract the gravitational radiation from numerical simulations of stellar collapse for a range of potentials with higher-order terms in addition to the quadratic mass term. Our study includes collapse to neutron stars and black holes and we find the strong inverse-chirp signals obtained for the purely quadratic potential to be exceptionally robust under changes in the potential at higher orders; quartic and sextic terms in the potential lead to noticeable differences in the wave signal only if their contribution is amplified, implying a relative fine-tuning to within 5 or more orders of magnitude between the mass and self-interaction parameters.
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1361-6382
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European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (690904)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000673/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/R002452/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/R00689X/1)
STFC (1628481)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M007065/1)
STFC (ST/M007073/1)
STFC (ST/T001550/1)