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Phys. Rev. D 78, 101502(R) (2008) [4 pages]

Bounding the greybody factors for Schwarzschild black holes

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Petarpa Boonserm* and Matt Visser
School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand

Received 23 June 2008; published 7 November 2008

Greybody factors in black-hole physics modify the naive Planckian spectrum that is predicted for Hawking radiation when working in the limit of geometrical optics. We consider the Schwarzschild geometry in (3+1) dimensions, and analyze the Regge-Wheeler equation for arbitrary particle spin s and wave-mode angular momentum , deriving rigorous bounds on the greybody factors as a function of s, , wave frequency ω, and the black-hole mass m.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.101502
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.101502
PACS:
04.70.Dy, 04.62.+v, 04.70.Bw

*petarpa.boonserm@mcs.vuw.ac.nz

matt.visser@mcs.vuw.ac.nz