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We propose two frequency-domain filters to analyze ringdown signals of binary black hole mergers. The first rational filter is constructed based on a set of (arbitrary) quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of the remnant black holes, whereas the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Sizheng Ma , Keefe Mitman , Ling Sun , Nils Deppe , François Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Jordan Moxon , William Throwe , Nils L. Vu , Yanbei Chen

The remnant black hole from a binary coalescence emits ringdown gravitational waves characterized by quasinormal modes, which depend solely on the remnant's mass and spin. In contrast, the ringdown amplitudes and phases are determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat , Francesco Nobili , Davide Gerosa

Quasinormal modes of black holes were previously calculated in a non-linear electrodynamics and in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity theory. Here we take into consideration both of the above factors and find quasinormal modes of a (massive) scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-04 M. S. Churilova , Z. Stuchlik

It has been shown that black hole quasinormal modes are subject to spectral instability, typically triggered by metric perturbations. These perturbations, which can introduce a minor bump in the effective potential of the wave equation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-11 Ramin G. Daghigh , Guan-Ru Li , Wei-Liang Qian , Stefan J. Randow

Using inspiral and plunge trajectories we construct with a generalized Ori-Thorne algorithm, we use a time-domain black hole perturbation theory code to compute the corresponding gravitational waves. The last cycles of these waveforms are a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-18 Halston Lim , Gaurav Khanna , Anuj Apte , Scott A. Hughes

Black holes play a fundamental role in modern physics. They have characteristic oscillation modes, called quasinormal modes. Past studies have shown that these modes are important to our understanding of the dynamics of astrophysical black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Vitor Cardoso

The quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes plays a crucial role in the modelling of post-merger ringdown signals. However, the spectrum is extremely sensitive to small deformations of the system and describes the linear response only in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 Romeo Felice Rosato , Kyriakos Destounis , Paolo Pani

The ringdown phase of a gravitational wave signal from a binary black hole merger offers a unique laboratory for testing general relativity in the strong-field regime and probing the properties of the final remnant black hole. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Hai-Tian Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Peng-Cheng Li , Yi-Zhong Fan

The ''ringdown'' stage of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers, mainly consisting of a superposition of quasinormal modes emitted by the merger remnant, is a key tool to test fundamental physics and to probe black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Francesco Crescimbeni , Gregorio Carullo , Emanuele Berti , Giada Caneva Santoro , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Paolo Pani

Much of our physical intuition about black hole quasinormal modes in general relativity comes from the eikonal/geometric optics approximation. According to the well-established eikonal model, the fundamental quasinormal mode represents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Kostas Glampedakis , Hector O. Silva

We provide an in-depth investigation of quasinormal-mode oscillations of Kerr black holes with nearly extremal angular momenta. We first discuss in greater detail the two distinct types of quasinormal mode frequencies presented in a recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-28 Huan Yang , Aaron Zimmerman , Anıl Zenginoğlu , Fan Zhang , Emanuele Berti , Yanbei Chen

We present a new method to search for gravitational waves from quasinormal modes in the ringdowns of the remnants of the mergers of the binary black hole systems. The method is based on maximum likelihood estimation. We derive a time-domain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 A. Królak , O. Dorosh

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

We study the quasi-normal modes for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational axial perturbations in the Hayward regular black hole surrounded by quintessence (HBH-$\omega_q$). Using the third--order WKB approximation we can determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 Omar Pedraza , L. A. López , R. Arceo , I. Cabrera-Munguia

This paper studies the quasinormal mode spectrum of the scalar perturbation on the background of the rotating accelerating black holes. The quasinormal frequency $\omega$ and the separation constant $\lambda$ are calculated using two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-09 Wei Xiong , Peng-Cheng Li

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of two black holes carry the signature of the strong field dynamics of binary black holes. In this work we have used numerical relativity simulations and post-Newtonian theory to investigate this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Ssohrab Borhanian , K. G. Arun , Harald P. Pfeiffer , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Robust measurements of multiple black hole vibrational modes provide a unique opportunity to characterise gravity in extreme curvature and dynamical regimes, to better investigate the nature of compact objects and search for signs of new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Vasco Gennari , Gregorio Carullo , Walter Del Pozzo

We compute the spectrum of quasinormal frequencies of regular black holes obtained in the presence of Non-Linear Electrodynamics. In particular, we perturb the black hole with a minimally coupled massive scalar field, and we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-24 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ángel Rincón

This study investigates the quasinormal modes of Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black holes for massless spin particles using the unified equation. We derive analytical expressions for both the quasinormal mode frequencies and the radial wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhong-Heng Li

The merger of binary black holes produces a series of decaying oscillations, during which energy is radiated in gravitational waves. The characteristic signal in the ringdown phase can be described by complex oscillation frequencies called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanqiang Liu , Benrong Mu , Jun Tao , Yuling Weng