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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

We develop an analytic eikonal description of perturbations for four-dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity. Using first-order Schutz--Will WKB together with a small-coupling expansion and a large-$\ell$ expansion, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Alexey Dubinsky

During the ringdown phase of a gravitational signal emitted by a black hole, the least damped quasinormal frequency dominates. If modifications to Einstein's theory induce noticeable deformations of the black-hole geometry only near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-29 R. A. Konoplya

In this paper we describe a model for the $(\ell=2, m=0)$ spherical harmonic mode of the gravitational wave signal emitted by the coalescence of binary black holes, in particular, spin-aligned systems. This mode can be viewed as consisting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Maria Rosselló-Sastre , Sascha Husa , Sayantani Bera

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

Multiple gauge theories predict the presence of cosmic strings with different mass densities $G\mu/c^2$. We derive an equation governing the perturbations of a rotating black hole pierced by a straight, infinitely long cosmic string along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Levi Wing-Hei Poon , Ka-Wai Chung , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

We employ a recently developed spectral method to obtain the spectrum of quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes in alternative theories of gravity and apply it to the black holes of shift-symmetric Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Fech Scen Khoo , Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

The ringdown of a perturbed black hole (BH) can be described as a superposition of quasinormal modes (QNMs), whose frequencies are determined by the spacetime geometry while their amplitudes depend also on the perturbing source. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Alejandro Svyatkovskyy Kholyavka , Jose Antonio León Vega , Samuel Gómez Gómez , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Sayak Datta

Numerical relativists can now produce gravitational waveforms with memory effects routinely and accurately. The gravitational-wave memory effect contains very low-frequency components, including a persistent offset. The presence of these…

We present the frequency-domain quasi-circular precessing binary-black-hole model PhenomXPNR. This model combines the most precise available post-Newtonian description of the evolution of the precession dynamics through inspiral with…

We propose a new way of analyzing, and analytically representing, the ringdown part of the gravitational wave signal emitted by coalescing black hole binaries.By contrast with the usual {\it linear} decomposition of the multipolar complex…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar

The remnant of a black hole binary merger settles into a stationary configuration by "ringing down" through the emission of gravitational waves that consist of a superposition of damped exponentials with discrete complex frequencies - the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Matteo Della Rocca , Laura Pezzella , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli

A generic feature of nearly out-of-equilibrium dissipative systems is that they resonate through a set of quasinormal modes. Black holes - the absorbing objects par excellence - are no exception. When formed in a merger, black holes vibrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Elisa Maggio , Luca Buoninfante , Anupam Mazumdar , Paolo Pani

We investigate the quasinormal modes of a massless scalar field on an effective rotating loop quantum black hole background, constructed from a covariant spherical model via an improved Newman-Janis algorithm. Using the continued fraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhongzhinan Dong , Shulan Li , Dan Zhang , Jian-Pin Wu

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a black hole (BH) are the eigen modes describing the dissipative oscillation of various fields in that spacetime, which can be intrinsically produced by the linear perturbation theory. With the discovery of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Yuqian Zhao , Bing Sun , Zhan-Feng Mai , Zhoujian Cao

In any extension of General Relativity (GR), extra fundamental degrees of freedom couple to gravity. Besides deforming GR forecasts in a theory-dependent way, this coupling generically introduces extra modes in the gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Francesco Crescimbeni , Xisco Jimenez Forteza , Swetha Bhagwat , Julian Westerweck , Paolo Pani

Independently from the formation mechanism of primordial black holes in the early Universe, their generation is accompanied by a ringdown phase during which they relax to a stationary configuration and gravitational waves under the form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Valerio De Luca , Antonio J. Iovino , Antonio Riotto

One of the central goals of the newborn field of gravitational wave astronomy is to test gravity in the highly nonlinear, strong field regime characterizing the spacetime of black holes. In particular, "black hole spectroscopy" (the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas , Hector O. Silva , Emanuele Berti

We calculate analytically the transmission and reflection amplitudes for waves incident on a rotating black hole in d=4, analytically continued to asymptotically large, nearly imaginary frequency. These amplitudes determine the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Uri Keshet , Andrew Neitzke

The ringdown phase of gravitational waves emitted by a perturbed black hole is described by a superposition of exponentially decaying sinusoidal modes, called quasinormal modes (QNMs), whose frequencies depend only on the property of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Che-Yu Chen , Petr Kotlařík