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An important question in binary black hole mergers is to connect properties of the remnant black hole to those of the two initial black holes. These properties include not only the final mass and spin of the remnant, but also higher…

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We investigate the quasi-normal mode (QNM) spectra for scalar and electromagnetic fields over a covairant loop quantum gravity black hole (LQG-BH). For the fundamental modes, the LQG effect reduces the oscillations in the scalar field,…

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The major source of ground-based gravitational wave detectors, the inspiral and merger of comparable mass binary black holes (BBH), consists of a slow quasicircular inspiral, a merger to form a single remnant hole, and the quasinormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Richard H. Price , Ritesh Bachhar , Gaurav Khanna

Recently, an exact black hole solution in non-minimal Einstein-Yang-Mills theory was obtained, and its quasinormal modes were subsequently analyzed using the JWKB approximation \cite{Gogoi:2024vcx}. However, we demonstrate that this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 B. C. Lütfüoğlu

Postmerger gravitational wave echoes provide a unique opportunity to probe the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, which may be modified due to nonperturbative quantum gravity phenomena. However, since the waveform is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Di Wu , Pengyuan Gao , Jing Ren , Niayesh Afshordi

We study the quasinormal modes (QNMs) for stringy black holes. By using numerical calculation, the relations between the QNMs and the parameters of black holes are minutely shown. For (1+1)-dimensional stringy black hole, the real part of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ping Xi , Xin-zhou Li

Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes currently rely on theoretical models that predict the dominant multipoles (l,m) of the radiation during inspiral, merger and ringdown. We introduce a simple method to include the…

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 rapid advancement of gravitational wave astronomy in recent years has paved the way for the burgeoning development of black hole spectroscopy, which enhances the possibility of testing black holes by their quasinormal modes (QNMs). In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-16 Che-Yu Chen , Yu-Hsien Kung , Pisin Chen

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

We study Bayesian inference of black hole ringdown modes for simulated binary black hole signals. We consider to what extent different fundamental ringdown modes can be identified in the context of black hole spectroscopy. Our simulated…

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We present a detailed descriptive analysis of the gravitational radiation from black-hole binary mergers of nonspinning black holes, based on numerical simulations of systems varying from equal-mass to a 6:1 mass ratio. Our primary goal is…

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Quadratic quasinormal modes (QQNMs) and Christodoulou memory effect are key nonlinear phenomena in gravitational wave physics. QQNMs characterize the near zone nonlinear response of a perturbed black hole, whereas the memory effect is a…

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Current searches for the gravitational-wave signature of compact binary mergers rely on matched-filtering data from interferometric observatories with sets of modelled gravitational waveforms. These searches currently use model waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 Ian Harry , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alex Nitz

In this paper, we exhaustively investigate the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a probe scalar field over a d-dimensional regular black hole (BH) characterized by the parameter A. The quasinormal frequencies (QNFs) exhibit different behaviors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-10 Zhongzhinan Dong , Dan Zhang , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu

We elucidate that a distinctive resonant excitation between quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes emerges as a universal phenomenon at an avoided crossing near the exceptional point through high-precision numerical analysis and theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-10 Hayato Motohashi

We present a comprehensive parameter-space study of binary black hole (BBH) mergers using the SEOBNRv4\_opt waveform model. Our analysis spans $\sim 10^6$ simulated waveforms across a broad range of mass ratios \( q = \frac{m_1}{m_2} \in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 İsmail Özbakır , Kadri Yakut

Accurate models of merger remnants are increasingly important for gravitational-wave science, including precision tests of gravity with ringdown, inference of black-hole populations, and modeling hierarchical mergers. For eccentric…

Templates modeling just the dominant mode of gravitational radiation are generally sufficient for the unbiased parameter inference of near-equal-mass compact binary mergers. However, neglecting the subdominant modes can bias the inference…

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