Do evaporating 4D black holes form photospheres and/or chromospheres?

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Abstract

Several authors have claimed that the observable Hawking emission from a microscopic black hole is significantly modified by the formation of a photosphere or chromosphere around the black hole due to QED or QCD interactions between the emitted particles. Analyzing these models we identify a number of physical and geometrical effects which invalidate them. In all cases, we find that the observational signatures of a cosmic or Galactic background of black holes or an individual black hole remain essentially those of the standard Hawking model, with little change to the detection probability. Copyright © 2012 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Publication Title

12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity

First Page

1154

Last Page

1156

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1142/9789814374552_0157

ISBN

9814374512,9789814374514

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