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March 24, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Chronoflux Shear and Echo Phenomenology for LIGO O4: A Single Lever Across Gravitational Ringdowns and PBH Gamma Signatures

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RHRoy Herbert

Key Points

  • The aim is to present a model that relates gravitational wave ringdowns to primordial black hole emissions through boundary-layer effects.
  • Developed a phenomenological boundary-layer model on a classical general-relativity background.
  • Encoded deviations using dimensionless parameters like impedance contrast and absorption.
  • Analyzed the resulting signatures in gravitational-wave and gamma-ray data.
  • Predicted delays in gravitational-wave ringdowns due to partial reflection near the horizon.
  • Identified mild spectral hardening and slow drift in the polarization angle during primordial black-hole evaporation.
  • Demonstrated that the same parameters govern both gravitational-wave and gamma-ray observations.

Abstract

This work presents a phenomenological boundary-layer model describing possible near-horizon transport effects in regions of strong curvature, formulated on a classical general-relativity background. All deviations from the standard prediction are encoded in a small set of dimensionless parameters representing impedance contrast, reflectivity, absorption, and shear of a conserved temporal current, while the Einstein equations in the exterior spacetime remain unchanged. The model predicts two observable signatures. In gravitational-wave ringdowns, partial reflection near the horizon produces a sequence of delayed echoes whose spacing is determined by the effective cavity length. In primordial black-hole evaporation, the same boundary parameters modify the emission conditions, producing mild spectral hardening and a slow drift of the polarization angle in high-energy radiation. Because both effects depend on the same scaling combination of parameters, gravitational-wave and gamma-ray observations provide a direct consistency test of the effective description. The formulation is strictly four-dimensional, reduces smoothly to the general-relativity limit when the boundary layer vanishes, and is intended as a minimal testable model that can be applied directly to existing LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and high-energy data.

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Roy Herbert (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c229b2aeb5a845df0d4950https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19164830
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