Testing Kerr black hole mimickers with quasi-periodic oscillations from GRO J1655-40


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Authors
Wang, Peng 
Yang, Haitang 
Wu, Houwen 
Abstract

Abstract: The measurements of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) provide a quite powerful tool to test the nature of astrophysical black hole candidates in the strong gravitational field regime. In this paper, we use QPOs within the relativistic precession model to test a recently proposed family of rotating black hole mimickers, which reduce to the Kerr metric in a limiting case, and can represent traversable wormholes or regular black holes with one or two horizons, depending on the values of the parameters. In particular, assuming that the compact object of GRO J1655-40 is described by a rotating black hole mimicker, we perform a χ-square analysis to fit the parameters of the mimicker with two sets of observed QPO frequencies from GRO J1655-40. Our results indicate that although the metric around the compact object of GRO J1655-40 is consistent with the Kerr metric, a regular black hole with one horizon is favored by the observation data of GRO J1655-40.

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Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Journal Title
The European Physical Journal C
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Journal ISSN
1434-6044
1434-6052
Volume Title
81
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg