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Perturbed Kerr black holes emit gravitational radiation, which (for the practical purposes of gravitational-wave astronomy) consists of a superposition of damped sinusoids termed quasi-normal modes. The frequencies and time-constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ioannis Kamaretsos , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , B. S. Sathyaprakash

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

In this work, we have studied the quasinormal modes of a black hole in a model of the type $f(Q)=\underset{n}{\sum}a_{n}\left(Q-Q_{0}\right)^{n} $ in $f(Q)$ gravity by using a recently introduced method known as Bernstein spectral method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Ali Övgün , M. Koussour

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

Black-hole spectroscopy aims to infer the fundamental properties of black holes by analysing the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted as they settle into equilibrium. These resonances, known as quasinormal modes (QNMs), decay rapidly,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Pietro Smaniotto , Leonardo Solidoro , Patrik Švančara , Sam Patrick , Maurício Richartz , Carlo F. Barenghi , Ruth Gregory , Silke Weinfurtner

We calculate the quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections. The model is based on quantum corrections inspired by loop quantum gravity. It is covariant and results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Douglas M. Gingrich

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

Astrophysical black hole candidates are thought to be the Kerr black hole predicted by General Relativity. In order to confirm the Kerr-nature of these objects, we need to probe the geometry of the space-time around them and see if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-12 Cosimo Bambi

We have studied quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations of a black hole in massive gravity. The parameters of the theory, such as the mass of the black hole, the scalar charge of the black hole and the spherical harmonic index is varied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Sharmanthie Fernando , Tyler Clark

We continue our series of papers where we study the quasinormal modes, and their excitation, of black holes in the simplest beyond general relativity model in which first-principle calculations are tractable: a nonrotating black hole in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Hector O. Silva , Giovanni Tambalo , Kostas Glampedakis , Kent Yagi

The nonlinear superposition of the delta-metric and the Kerr metric results in delta-Kerr metric that represents a deformed Kerr black hole with delta = 1 + q, where q > 0 is proportional to the nonrelativistic quadrupole moment of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-10 Alireza Allahyari , Hassan Firouzjahi , Bahram Mashhoon

Using the WKB method, we show that the peak location ($r_{\rm peak}$) of the potential, which determines the quasinormal mode frequency of the Kerr black hole, obeys an accurate empirical relation as a function of the specific angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-29 Takashi Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakano

The analytical understanding of quasinormal mode ringing requires an accurate knowledge of the Green's function describing the response of the black hole to external perturbations. We carry out a comprehensive study of quasinormal mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Zhongyang Zhang , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the exciting field of black hole quasi-normal modes and its capabilities to test general relativity in the 21st century. After motivating this line of research, we provide a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-04 Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel

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 study the spectrum of quasinormal mode frequencies for a Proca field on a rotating black hole spacetime. First, we review how the introduction of field mass modifies the spectrum in the scalar-field case, leading to evanescent modes and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-11 Jake Percival , Sam R Dolan

We carry out the first computation of gravitational quasinormal modes of black holes with arbitrary rotation in a theory with higher-derivative corrections. Our analysis focuses on a recently identified quartic-curvature theory that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David , Guido van der Velde

Black-hole quasinormal modes (QNM) 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 compare numerical results for the QNM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shahar Hod

Exploring gravitational theories beyond general relativity (GR) with black hole (BH) spectroscopy requires accurate and flexible methods for computing their quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum. A popular method of choice is the higher-order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Ruijing Tang , Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel , Emanuele Berti

We use the continued fraction method to determine the eigenfrequencies associated with a scalar field around a Kerr-like black hole. The Kerr-like metric considered in this article is a subclass of the general parametrization of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 Pedro Henrique Croti Siqueira , Maurício Richartz