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In this paper, we examine the behavior of modes of the Kerr geometry when the mode's frequency is purely imaginary. We demonstrate that quasinormal modes must be polynomial in nature if their frequency is purely imaginary, and present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Gregory B. Cook , Maxim Zalutskiy

We provide a rigorous definition of quasinormal modes for the Kerr black hole. They are obtained as the discrete set of poles of the meromorphically continued cutoff resolvent. The construction combines the method of complex scaling near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Thomas Stucker

We present results from a new code for computing gravitational perturbations of the Kerr geometry. This new code carefully maintains high precision to allow us to obtain high-accuracy solutions for the gravitational quasinormal modes of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Gregory B. Cook , Maxim Zalutskiy

We first show that the master equations for massless perturbations of accelerating rotating black holes can be transformed into the Heun's equation. The quasinormal modes of the black holes can be easily calculated in the framework of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-24 Tan Chen , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Hu

The perturbations of the Kerr metric and the miracle of their exact solutions play a critical role in the comparison of predictions of general relativity with astrophysical observations of compact massive objects. The differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

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

We present a polynomial basis that exactly tridiagonalizes Teukolsky's radial equation for quasi-normal modes. These polynomials naturally emerge from the radial problem, and they are canonical in that they possess key features of classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Lionel London , Michelle Foucoin

We analytically calculate to leading order the asymptotic form of quasinormal frequencies of Kerr black holes in four, five and seven dimensions. All the relevant quantities can be explicitly expressed in terms of elliptical integrals. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hsien-chung Kao , Dan Tomino

We study the quasi-normal modes of a massless scalar field in a general sub-extreme Kerr back- ground by exploiting the hidden SL(2, R) x SL(2, R) x SO(3) symmetry of the subtracted geometry approximation. This faithfully models the near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-02 M. Cvetic , G. W. Gibbons

We have studied the sound perturbation of Unruh's acoustic geometry and we present an exact expression for the quasinormal modes of this geometry. We are obtain that the quasinormal frequencies are pure-imaginary, that give a purely damped…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Joel Saavedra

The accurate computation of quasinormal modes from rotating black holes beyond general relativity is crucial for testing fundamental physics with gravitational waves. In this study, we assess the accuracy of the eikonal and post-Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Ciro De Simone , Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

We revisit the computation of quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the Kerr black hole using a numerical approach exploiting a representation of the Teukolsky equation as a $2D$ elliptic partial differential equation. By combining the hyperboloidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-06 Jamil Assaad , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo

This note addresses quasinormal mode frequencies of four-dimensional asymptotically de Sitter rotating black holes. The main motivation is that Mathematica 12.1 has implemented a new family of special functions: Heun functions. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Yasuyuki Hatsuda

The differential equations governing the late-time ring-down of the perturbations of the Kerr metric, the Teukolsky Angular Equation and the Teukolsky Radial Equation, can be solved analytically in terms of confluent Heun functions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-24 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

The proper understanding of the electromagnetic counterpart of gravity-waves emitters is of serious interest to the multimessenger astronomy. In this article, we study the numerical stability of the quasinormal modes (QNM) and quasibound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

In this letter, a matrix method is employed to study the scalar quasinormal modes of Kerr as well as Kerr-Sen black holes. Discretization is applied to transfer the scalar perturbation equation into a matrix form eigenvalue problem, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Alan B. Pavan , Elcio Abdalla

The quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a black hole spacetime are the free, decaying oscillations of the spacetime, and are well understood in the case of Kerr black holes. We discuss a method for computing the QNMs of spacetimes which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Zimmerman , Huan Yang , Zachary Mark , Yanbei Chen , Luis Lehner

We compute for the first time very highly damped quasinormal modes of the (rotating) Kerr black hole. Our numerical technique is based on a decoupling of the radial and angular equations, performed using a large-frequency expansion for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Shijun Yoshida

We discuss a method of calculating analytically the asymptotic form of quasi-normal frequencies for large AdS black holes in five dimensions. In this case, the wave equation reduces to a Heun equation. We show that the Heun equation may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Suphot Musiri , George Siopsis

We calculate the spectrum of quasinormal modes of slowly rotating Kerr-Newman black holes. Using a perturbative double expansion method, second order in rotation and first order in non-radial perturbations, we obtain the system of equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-20 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo
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