Primordial gravastar from inflation
The de Sitter (dS) bubbles can nucleate spontaneously during inflation, and will be stretched by the cosmological expansion to astrophysical scale. We report on a novel phenomenon that some of such bubbles might develop into the gravastar (the ultra-compact object with a dS core) after inflation, wh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Physics Letters B |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319304186 |
| Summary: | The de Sitter (dS) bubbles can nucleate spontaneously during inflation, and will be stretched by the cosmological expansion to astrophysical scale. We report on a novel phenomenon that some of such bubbles might develop into the gravastar (the ultra-compact object with a dS core) after inflation, which witnessed the occurrence of inflation and might survive till today. It is pointed out that if such a primordial star was involved in one of the LIGO/Virgo events, the post-merger object will eventually collapse into a black hole. As a result, the late-time gravitational wave ringdown waveform will exhibit a series of “echoes” with intervals increasing with time. |
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| ISSN: | 0370-2693 |