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We investigate the precision with which the parameters describing the characteristics and location of nonspinning black hole binaries can be measured with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). By using complete waveforms including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-16 Sean T. McWilliams , James Ira Thorpe , John G. Baker , Bernard J. Kelly

The quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a regular black hole with charge are calculated in the eikonal approximation. In the eikonal limit the QNMs of black hole are determined by the parameters of the unstable circular null geodesics. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-20 L. A. Lopez , Valeria Hinojosa

We study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a family of generalized black bounces interpolating between regular black holes and traversable wormhole solutions according to a single extra parameter $a$. Firstly, working with a generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Albert Duran-Cabacés , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

We present a new method for determining the frequencies and wavefunctions of black hole quasinormal modes (QNMs) and Regge poles. The key idea is a novel ansatz for the wavefunction, which relates the high-$l$ wavefunctions to null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Sam R. Dolan , Adrian C. Ottewill

We report a new method to calculate the quasinormal modes of rotating black holes, using a spectral decomposition to solve the partial differential equations that result from introducing linear metric perturbations to a rotating background.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-18 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Jutta Kunz , Luis Manuel González-Romero

Black-hole quasinormal modes have been the subject of much recent attention, with the hope that these oscillation frequencies may shed some light on the elusive theory of quantum gravity. We study {\it analytically} the asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shahar Hod

We study gravitational and test-field perturbations for the two possible families of spherically symmetric black-hole mimickers that smoothly interpolate between regular black holes and horizonless compact objects accordingly to the value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-08 Edgardo Franzin , Stefano Liberati , Vania Vellucci

We study quasinormal modes of test scalar, electromagnetic, and Dirac fields in the background of a new analytic regular black-hole solution obtained as an exact solution of the Einstein equations sourced by a Dehnen-type matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 S. V. Bolokhov

The issue concerning rigorous methods recently developed in deriving the asymptotics of quasi-normal modes is revisited and applied to a generic non rotating multi-horizon black holes solution. Some examples are illustrated and the single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

Gravitational waves provide direct information about the nature of spacetime and the existence of black holes. The remnant of a binary black hole merger emits gravitational waves in the form of quasinormal modes, whose spectrum is known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-18 Iara Ota

We present the results of high signal-to-noise ratio VLT spectropolarimetry of a representative sample of 25 bright type 1 AGN at z<0.37, of which nine are radio-loud. The sample covers uniformly the 5100 A optical luminosity at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Alessandro Capetti , Ari Laor , Ranieri D. Baldi , Andrew Robinson , Alessandro Marconi

We investigate quasinormal modes of a massless charged scalar field on a small Reissner-Nordstr\"om-anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole both with analytical and numerical approaches. In the analytical approach, by using the small black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Nami Uchikata , Shijun Yoshida

The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential. By carefully predicting the frequencies and amplitudes of black hole quasinormal modes and comparing them with gravitational-wave data from compact…

LISA can detect higher harmonics of the ringdown gravitational-wave signal from massive black-hole binary mergers with large signal-to-noise ratio. The most massive black-hole binaries are more likely to have electromagnetic counterparts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Vishal Baibhav , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso

One of the sources of gravitational waves for the proposed space-based gravitational wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), are the inspirals of compact objects into supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan R. Gair , Christopher Tang , Marta Volonteri

We study neutral massless scalar field perturbations around an extreme dilaton black hole in 2 +1 dimensions: the wave equations of the massless scalar field is shown to be exactly solvable in terms of Whittaker functions. Thus, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Sharmanthie Fernando , P. A. González , Yerko Vásquez

Stellar-mass black-hole binaries are the most numerous gravitational-wave sources observed to date. Their properties make them suitable for observation both by ground- and space-based detectors. Starting from synthetic catalogues…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 R. Buscicchio , J. Torrado , C. Caprini , G. Nardini , N. Karnesis , M. Pieroni , A. Sesana

The excitation of quadratic quasinormal modes is an important nonlinear phenomenon for a Kerr black hole ringing at a specific linear mode. The amplitude of this second-order effect is proportional to the square of the linear mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-27 Sizheng Ma , Huan Yang

We compute the quasinormal frequencies for scalar and electromagnetic perturbations of an improved Schwarzschild geometry in the framework of asymptotically safe gravity, which is one of the approaches to quantum gravity. Adopting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Angel Rincon , Grigoris Panotopoulos

We investigate the capability of LISA to measure the sky position of equal-mass, nonspinning black hole binaries, combining for the first time the entire inspiral-merger-ringdown signal, the effect of the LISA orbits, and the complete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Sean T. McWilliams , Ryan N. Lang , John G. Baker , James Ira Thorpe