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Motivated by gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers, we present a procedure to compute the leading order nonlinear gravitational wave interactions around a Kerr black hole. We describe the formalism used to derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Nicholas Loutrel , Justin L. Ripley , Elena Giorgi , Frans Pretorius

The gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole are notoriously complicated, even at the linear level. In 1973, Teukolsky showed that their physical degrees of freedom are encoded in two gauge-invariant Weyl curvature scalars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

Perturbation theory of rotating black holes is usually described in terms of Weyl scalars $\psi_4$ and $\psi_0$, which each satisfy Teukolsky's complex master wave equation and respectively represent outgoing and ingoing radiation. On the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlos O. Lousto , Bernard F. Whiting

To fully exploit the capabilities of next-generation gravitational wave detectors, we need to significantly improve the accuracy of our models of gravitational-wave-emitting systems. This paper focuses on one way of doing so: by taking…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Andrew Spiers , Adam Pound , Jordan Moxon

We investigate higher than the first order gravitational perturbations in the Newman-Penrose formalism. Equations for the Weyl scalar $\psi_4,$ representing outgoing gravitational radiation, can be uncoupled into a single wave equation to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 M. Campanelli , C. O. Lousto

Perturbation theory of rotating black holes is described in terms of the Weyl scalars $\psi_4$ and $\psi_0$; each satisfying the Teukolsky's complex master wave equation with spin $s=\mp2$, and respectively representing outgoing and ingoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos O. Lousto

Perturbations of Kerr spacetime are typically studied with the Teukolsky formalism, in which a pair of invariant components of the perturbed Weyl tensor are expressed in terms of separable modes that satisfy ordinary differential equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Sam R. Dolan , Chris Kavanagh , Barry Wardell

The linear perturbation of a Kerr black hole induced by a rotating massive circular ring is discussed by using the formalism by Teukolsky, Chrzanowski, Cohen and Kegeles. In these formalism, the perturbed Weyl scalars, $\psi_0$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 Yasumichi Sano , Hideyuki Tagoshi

This paper reviews the basic features of the theory of curvature perturbations in Kerr spacetime, which is customarily written in terms of gauge invariant components of the Weyl tensor which satisfy a perturbation equation known as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Ramon Lopez-Aleman

In this second paper of our series started with \cite{Berens2024}, we investigate linearized gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole in a non-asymptotically flat spacetime with (anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

We calculate the linear vacuum perturbations of a Kerr black hole surrounded by a slowly-varying external spacetime to third order in the ratio of the black-hole mass to the radius of curvature of the external spacetime. This expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-13 Katerina Chatziioannou , Eric Poisson , Nicolas Yunes

Perturbations of the Kerr black hole are notoriously difficult to describe in the metric formalism and are usually studied in terms of perturbations of the Weyl scalars. In this work, we focus on the algebraically special linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Jibril Ben Achour , Clara Montagnon , Hugo Roussille

We develop a numerical code to compute gravitational waves induced by a particle moving on eccentric inclined orbits around a Kerr black hole. For such systems, the black hole perturbation method is applicable. The gravitational waves can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-05 Ryuichi Fujita , Wataru Hikida , Hideyuki Tagoshi

The advancement in gravitational wave detection has made it possible to study the nonlinear effects in black hole perturbations, the modeling of which requires the full knowledge of the linear order perturbation of the metric. For the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Jianwei Mei

We present analytic calculations of gravitational waves from a particle orbiting a black hole. We first review the Teukolsky formalism for dealing with the gravitational perturbation of a black hole. Then we develop a systematic method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yasushi Mino , Misao Sasaki , Masaru Shibata , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

We solve the problem of expressing the Weyl scalars $\psi $ that describe gravitational perturbations of a Kerr black hole in terms of Cauchy data. To do so we use geometrical identities (like the Gauss-Codazzi relations) as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Manuela Campanelli , Carlos O. Lousto , John Baker , Gaurav Khanna , Jorge Pullin

We discuss a general method to study linear perturbations of slowly rotating black holes which is valid for any perturbation field, and particularly advantageous when the field equations are not separable. As an illustration of the method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Emanuele Berti , Akihiro Ishibashi

In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of first-order perturbations of the Kerr metric in the slow-rotation limit. We perform the calculation by perturbing the Schwarzschild metric plus up to second-order corrections in the spin in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Nicola Franchini

Using recently developed efficient symbolic manipulations tools, we present a general gauge-invariant formalism to study arbitrary radiative $(l\geq 2)$ second-order perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole. In particular, we construct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 David Brizuela , Jose M. Martin-Garcia , Manuel Tiglio

We derive the Teukolsky equation for perturbations of a Kerr spacetime when the spacetime metric is written in either ingoing or outgoing Kerr-Schild form. We also write explicit formulae for setting up the initial data for the Teukolsky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Manuela Campanelli , Gaurav Khanna , Pablo Laguna , Jorge Pullin , Michael P. Ryan
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