Richard Brito

Stochastic gravitational-wave background from self-interacting superradiant clouds

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations offer a powerful probe of new fundamental fields. One well-motivated source is black hole (BH)--boson cloud systems, in which an ultralight scalar field forms a cloud around a rotating BH via superradiance and emits long-lived nearly monochromatic GWs. In this work, we compute the s...