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Using known frequencies of the twin-peak high-frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (HF QPOs) and known mass of the central black hole, the black-hole dimensionless spin can be determined by assuming a concrete version of the resonance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-16 Zdenek Stuchlik , Andrea Kotrlova , Gabriel Torok

The prediction of the spin of the black hole resulting from the merger of a generic black-hole binary system is of great importance to study the cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes. Several attempts have been recently made to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Enrico Barausse

Detailed observations of phenomena involving black holes, be it via gravitational waves or more traditional electromagnetic means, can probe the strong field regime of the gravitational interaction. The prediction of features in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Andrew Sullivan , Nicolás Yunes , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We present analytical and numerical progress on black-hole binary spin precession at second post-Newtonian order using multi-timescale methods. In addition to the commonly used effective spin which acts as a constant of motion, we exploit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Davide Gerosa , Giulia Fumagalli , Matthew Mould , Giovanni Cavallotto , Diego Padilla Monroy , Daria Gangardt , Viola De Renzis

The multi-resonance orbital model of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) enables precise determination of the black hole dimensionless spin a if observed set of oscillations demonstrates three (or more) commensurable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-08 Andrea Kotrlova , Zdenek Stuchlik , Gabriel Torok

Binary black holes on quasicircular orbits with spins aligned with their orbital angular momentum have been testbeds for analytic and numerical relativity for decades, not least because symmetry ensures that such configurations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-06 Davide Gerosa , Michael Kesden , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Antoine Klein , Emanuele Berti , Ulrich Sperhake , Daniele Trifirò

Numerical codes based on a direct implementation of the standard ADM formulation of Einstein's equations have generally failed to provide long-term stable and convergent evolutions of black hole spacetimes when excision is used to remove…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernard Kelly , Pablo Laguna , Keith Lockitch , Jorge Pullin , Erik Schnetter , Deirdre Shoemaker , Manuel Tiglio

We use Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to classify the spin of a black hole. The SVMs are trained and tested with a catalog of numerically generated images of black holes, assuming disk and spherical matter models with monochromatic emission…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 J. A. Gonzalez , F. S. Guzman

We present IMRPhenomTPHM, a phenomenological model for the gravitational wave signals emitted by the coalescence of quasi-circular precessing binary black holes systems. The model is based on the "twisting up" approximation, which maps…

After eleven gravitational-wave detections from compact-binary mergers, we are yet to observe the striking general-relativistic phenomenon of orbital precession. Measurements of precession would provide valuable insights into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Stephen Fairhurst , Rhys Green , Mark Hannam , Charlie Hoy

Recent X-ray timing and spectral observations of black hole binaries in outburst have redefined methods for investigating the properties of Galactic black holes and the physics of accretion flows. High-frequency X-ray QPOs in 5 systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Remillard

We model the overall shape of an accretion disc in a semi-detached binary system in which mass is transfered on to a spinning black hole the spin axis of which is misaligned with the orbital rotation axis. We assume the disc is in a steady…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Rebecca G. Martin , J. E. Pringle , Christopher A. Tout

In this paper, we investigate the frame-dragging effect on an accretion disk and test gyroscope orbiting around a rotating regular black hole with a Minkowski core. Firstly, we perturb a bound timelike circular orbit around the black hole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Meng-He Wu , Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We revisit the classic system of a spherically symmetric black hole in general relativity (i.e., a Schwarzschild black hole) surrounded by a geometrically thin accretion disk. Our purpose is to examine whether one can determine three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Kenta Hioki , Umpei Miyamoto

Nearly 210 binary black hole (BBH) mergers have been observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network during its four observing runs. Generic BBHs are spinning, and their spins are misaligned with the orbital angular momentum $\vec{L}$. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-16 Tamanjyot Singh , Evangelos Stoikos , Saif Ali , Nathan Steinle , Michael Kesden , Lindsay King

We present a simple formula for the effective ringdown frequencies of the gravitational-wave signal of a precessing black-hole binary in the co-precessing frame. This formula requires only knowledge of the quasi-normal mode frequencies of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Eleanor Hamilton , Lionel London , Mark Hannam

We investigate quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as a diagnostic tool for probing frame-dragging effects and accretion disk physics in the spacetime of a rotating regular magnetic black hole (BH). Specifically, we analyze the precession of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 R. H. Ali , Meng-He Wu , Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang

The MRFM device is a powerful setup for manipulating single electron spin in resonance in a magnetic field. However, the real time observation of a resonating spin is still an issue because of the very low SNR of the output signal. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cyril Hory , Alfred O. Hero

Black hole X-ray transients show a variety of state transitions during their outburst phases, characterized by changes in their spectral and timing properties. In particular, power density spectra (PDS) show quasi periodic oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Alessia Franchini , Sara Elisa Motta , Giuseppe Lodato

We generalize previous calculations to a fully relativistic treatment of adiabatic oscillations which are trapped in the inner regions of accretion disks by non-Newtonian gravitational effects of a black hole. We employ the Kerr geometry…