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In this work we present an extension of the time domain phenomenological model IMRPhenomT for gravitational wave signals from binary black hole coalescences to include subdominant harmonics, specifically the $(l=2, m=\pm 1)$, $(l=3, m=\pm…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 Héctor Estellés , Sascha Husa , Marta Colleoni , David Keitel , Maite Mateu-Lucena , Cecilio García-Quirós , Antoni Ramos-Buades , Angela Borchers

In this chapter, we review the eikonal technique to analytically derive approximate quasi-normal mode frequencies of black holes. We first review the procedure in General Relativity and extend it to theories beyond General Relativity. As an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Kent Yagi

The remnant black hole from a binary coalescence emits ringdown gravitational waves characterized by quasinormal modes, which depend solely on the remnant's mass and spin. In contrast, the ringdown amplitudes and phases are determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat , Francesco Nobili , Davide Gerosa

We study an improved method for detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals from perturbed black holes by earth-based detectors in the quest for searching for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). Such signals, called ringdowns, are damped…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-16 Dipongkar Talukder , Sukanta Bose , Sarah Caudill , Paul T. Baker

Black hole ringdowns in extensions of General Relativity (GR) generically exhibit two distinct signatures: (1) theory-dependent shifts in the standard black-hole quasinormal modes, and (2) additional modes arising from extra fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Francesco Crescimbeni , Xisco Jimenez-Forteza , Paolo Pani

Measuring quasinormal modes (QNMs) during the ringdown phase of binary black hole coalescences provides key insights into merger dynamics and enables tests of the no-hair theorem. The QNM rational filter has recently been introduced as a…

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We investigate the quasinormal modes of several families of higher-dimensional regular black holes arising in gravitational theories that incorporate an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections to Einstein gravity. Our analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Juan Pablo Arbelaez

Black-hole spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the Kerr nature of astrophysical compact objects and their environment. The observation of multiple ringdown modes in gravitational waveforms could soon lead to high-precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Kyriakos Destounis , Francisco Duque

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Jahed Abedi , Collin D. Capano , Shilpa Kastha , Alexander H. Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang , Julian Westerweck , Alex B. Nielsen , Badri Krishnan

During the post-merger regime of a binary black hole merger, the gravitational wave signal consists of a superposition of quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of the remnant black hole. It has been observed empirically, primarily through numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 A. Ribes Metidieri , B. Bonga , B. Krishnan

The ringdown phase of a binary black-hole merger provides a clean probe of strong-field gravity, as it can be modeled with minimal assumptions. The quasi-normal-mode frequencies encode the mass and spin of the Kerr black-hole remnant, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-08 Chiara Anselmo , Costantino Pacilio , Davide Gerosa

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes are crucial in understanding the ringdown phase after a merger. While for Kerr black holes these modes have been known for a long time, their calculation has remained a challenge in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

One of the most promising strategies to test gravity in the strong-field, large curvature regime is gravitational spectroscopy: the measurement of black hole quasi-normal modes from the ringdown signal emitted in the aftermath of a compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-16 Lorenzo Pierini , Leonardo Gualtieri

It is shown that the spectral amplitude of gravitational-wave (GW) ringdown of a Kerr black hole sourced by an extreme mass ratio merger can be modeled by the $\textit{greybody factor}$, which quantifies the scattering nature of the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Naritaka Oshita

According to General Relativity a perturbed black hole will return to a stable configuration by the emission of gravitational radiation in a superposition of quasi-normal modes. Such a perturbation will occur due to the coalescence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-17 Lisa Maria Goggin

We formulate a Bayesian framework to analyze ringdown gravitational waves from colliding binary black holes and test the no-hair theorem. The idea hinges on mode cleaning -- revealing subdominant oscillation modes by removing dominant ones…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-06 Sizheng Ma , Ling Sun , Yanbei Chen

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

The gravitational radiation produced by binary black holes during their inspiral, merger, and ringdown phases is a promising candidate for detection by the first or second generation of kilometer-scale interferometric gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jolien D. E. Creighton

In this work, we introduce a novel framework to investigate ringdown gravitational waveforms in the presence of dynamical matter fields outside the horizon of a black hole. We systematically analyze two distinct scenarios of dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Ying-Lei Tian , Hao Yang , Chen Lan , Yan-Gang Miao

Existing constraints on the graviton mass from gravitational-wave detections rely on the phase difference developed between different frequencies during the propagation. Effects on the quasinormal-mode frequencies of the black-hole ringdown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-18 Ka-Wai Chung , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li