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Mordanis
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States893 Posts
April 26 2015 20:22 GMT
#81
While thinking about this, I came across this article. Might be the coolest thing I've ever heard of. http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.111101

Anyways, it looks like about 7 evaporation events have been observed as of 1995. Here's a link to an article. The article is behind a paywall, but you can look at the first two pages if you click "look inside".

It seems like black hole evaporation describes some, but not all, GRBs.

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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 26 2015 20:36 GMT
#82
On April 27 2015 05:22 Mordanis wrote:
While thinking about this, I came across this article. Might be the coolest thing I've ever heard of. http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.111101

Anyways, it looks like about 7 evaporation events have been observed as of 1995. Here's a link to an article. The article is behind a paywall, but you can look at the first two pages if you click "look inside".

It seems like black hole evaporation describes some, but not all, GRBs.



The idea that some GRBs are PBH evaporation events is very, very fringe in the GRB community as far as I know. I have never heard it from anyone from the GRB group I losely work with even mentioned as a possibility.

Everyone really needs to keep in mind that however engrained in the popular culture, Hawking radiation is still purely theoretical.
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Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 20:58:53
April 26 2015 20:52 GMT
#83
A black hole evaporation event has to be pretty faint.

How much mass does a black hole retain until the last second of its life? ~ 1000000 kg or so ? Hence 1000000 kg/s * c^2 is the largest luminosity it will ever reach over a full second.

It would have to be to be pretty close to be observable, and would certainly not be red-shifted by the expansion.
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12247 Posts
April 26 2015 21:06 GMT
#84
On April 27 2015 05:36 opisska wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2015 05:22 Mordanis wrote:
While thinking about this, I came across this article. Might be the coolest thing I've ever heard of. http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.111101

Anyways, it looks like about 7 evaporation events have been observed as of 1995. Here's a link to an article. The article is behind a paywall, but you can look at the first two pages if you click "look inside".

It seems like black hole evaporation describes some, but not all, GRBs.



The idea that some GRBs are PBH evaporation events is very, very fringe in the GRB community as far as I know. I have never heard it from anyone from the GRB group I losely work with even mentioned as a possibility.

Everyone really needs to keep in mind that however engrained in the popular culture, Hawking radiation is still purely theoretical.


Yep, most of the GRB community is pretty convinced by the Hypernova models. SN1998bw is the most important event supporting that interpretation, but there's plenty more. We have detected hundreds of GRBs, so explaning 7 of them is situational at best
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 26 2015 21:08 GMT
#85
On April 27 2015 05:52 Maenander wrote:
A black hole evaporation event has to be pretty faint.

How much mass does a black hole retain until the last second of its life? ~ 1000000 kg or so ? Hence 1000000 kg/s * c^2 is the largest luminosity it will ever reach over a full second.

It would have to be to be pretty close to be observable, and would certainly not be red-shifted by the expansion.


The article linked above specifically notes that while most conservative models predict lower burst output, there are feasible models where the final burst releases 10^9 to 10^14 grams of rest energy - the whole uncertainity comes about when the QCD effects kick in.

Anyway, thinking about it, the paper is from before any real optical counterparts with spectra were known, thus before the cosmological distibution of GRBs was established, making the point probably moot with today's knowledge.
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 26 2015 21:14 GMT
#86
Also, fuck GRBs in general. Among other things, we are running a small robotic telescope in the southern hemisphere which is set up to do GRB follow-ups and the last big hit occured 3 years before I joined the team, so I don't get a high-profile GRB publication (there is one with "GRB" in title that I have written, but that merely describes the patient wait we are currently exhibiting).
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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12247 Posts
April 26 2015 21:16 GMT
#87
haha :D imagine how the people hoping to detect neutrinos from a supernova in the Milky Way must feel then...
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Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 21:28:09
April 26 2015 21:18 GMT
#88
On April 27 2015 06:08 opisska wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2015 05:52 Maenander wrote:
A black hole evaporation event has to be pretty faint.

How much mass does a black hole retain until the last second of its life? ~ 1000000 kg or so ? Hence 1000000 kg/s * c^2 is the largest luminosity it will ever reach over a full second.

It would have to be to be pretty close to be observable, and would certainly not be red-shifted by the expansion.


The article linked above specifically notes that while most conservative models predict lower burst output, there are feasible models where the final burst releases 10^9 to 10^14 grams of rest energy - the whole uncertainity comes about when the QCD effects kick in.

Anyway, thinking about it, the paper is from before any real optical counterparts with spectra were known, thus before the cosmological distibution of GRBs was established, making the point probably moot with today's knowledge.

Yeah sorry, was just going through the wiki equations and not looking at the article. Even optimistic 10^14 grams is not that much, given the sun puts out ~ 4 x 10^12 g/s.

On April 27 2015 06:16 Teoita wrote:
haha :D imagine how the people hoping to detect neutrinos from a supernova in the Milky Way must feel then...


How lucky were Kepler and Tycho? One supernova for each of them, both easily visible for the naked eye.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 26 2015 21:25 GMT
#89
On April 27 2015 06:18 Maenander wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 27 2015 06:08 opisska wrote:
On April 27 2015 05:52 Maenander wrote:
A black hole evaporation event has to be pretty faint.

How much mass does a black hole retain until the last second of its life? ~ 1000000 kg or so ? Hence 1000000 kg/s * c^2 is the largest luminosity it will ever reach over a full second.

It would have to be to be pretty close to be observable, and would certainly not be red-shifted by the expansion.


The article linked above specifically notes that while most conservative models predict lower burst output, there are feasible models where the final burst releases 10^9 to 10^14 grams of rest energy - the whole uncertainity comes about when the QCD effects kick in.

Anyway, thinking about it, the paper is from before any real optical counterparts with spectra were known, thus before the cosmological distibution of GRBs was established, making the point probably moot with today's knowledge.

Yeah sorry, was just going through the wiki equations and not looking at the article. Even optimistic 10^14 grams is not that much, given the sun puts out ~ 4 x 10^12 g/s.


Sure, the point was that these things could be pretty ubiquituous and thus the bursts would be happening rather close to us - which is, I believe, considered quite unlikely now.

On April 27 2015 06:16 Teoita wrote:
haha :D imagine how the people hoping to detect neutrinos from a supernova in the Milky Way must feel then...


They are probably still dreaming about 1987
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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12247 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-26 21:28:55
April 26 2015 21:28 GMT
#90
There's a detector at the labs in Gran Sasso made specifically for that, that started functioning like one month after that supernova. There hasn't been one close enough since.

And yeah, if the black hole evaporation models predict they are that faint, there's no way they can be correct.
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 26 2015 21:30 GMT
#91
On April 27 2015 06:28 Teoita wrote:
There's a detector at the labs in Gran Sasso made specifically for that, that started functioning like one month after that supernova. There hasn't been one close enough since.



LOL I didn't know that, what a story!
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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12247 Posts
April 26 2015 21:32 GMT
#92
The funny part is it's still functional, they are all thinking "come on some of you fuckers blow up, you've taken enough time already!"
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
April 26 2015 21:40 GMT
#93
Well, it's like waiting for some nucleus with a half life of a hundred years or so to pop.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
April 26 2015 21:43 GMT
#94
On April 27 2015 06:40 Maenander wrote:
Well, it's like waiting for some nucleus with a half life of a hundred years or so to pop.


Of those you can just bring a couple of billion and you are golden
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evaunit01
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States512 Posts
April 26 2015 22:59 GMT
#95
awesome post!
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knOxStarcraft
Profile Joined March 2012
Canada422 Posts
April 27 2015 00:07 GMT
#96
Great read, thanks for posting
kingjames01
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada1603 Posts
April 27 2015 04:57 GMT
#97
First, amazing blog! I have a strong passion for Physics education so I'm always happy to see people explain difficult concepts in an approachable way.

On April 26 2015 18:34 eonrulz wrote:
Great blog, Teoita. Nice to see science getting its due attention on TL :D

Maybe I should write a similar blog for particle physics/quantum mechanics. That's my field, after all. Would be a nice accompaniment to this blog - the large and the small! Plus there do seem to be a lot of misconceptions about QM floating around this thread


I'm have a graduate degree in Experimental Nuclear!

We should put together a series of blogs for TL! :D
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munch
Profile Joined July 2014
Mute City2363 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-27 05:48:10
April 27 2015 05:45 GMT
#98
I took an astrophysics module as part of my maths course, but was too shit to think about continuing on that line though.
It's really interesting stuff though; yet another part of applied maths I wish I was more competent at :[
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EsportsJohn
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4883 Posts
April 27 2015 05:49 GMT
#99
The Hubble is a PoS! Get that thing outta orbit, it's not doing anything useful up there!
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TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28100 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-27 06:09:39
April 27 2015 06:09 GMT
#100
On April 27 2015 14:45 thecrazymunchkin wrote:
I took an astrophysics module as part of my maths course, but was too shit to think about continuing on that line though.
It's really interesting stuff though; yet another part of applied maths I wish I was more competent at :[

Yeah it's extremely daunting. I've taken some physics/astro classes as electives and I think I could have managed to fight my way to a degree in it, but it would have been really hard, and I would never compare to some of the talented people in those classes who just understood stuff like it was no big deal.
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