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Gravitational wave echoes offer a unique probe of the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, beyond the standard ''black hole spectroscopy''. Theoretical waveform predictions, however, remain uncertain, motivating robust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Di Wu , Xi-Li Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang , Jing Ren

We study the dynamical excitation of quasinormal modes (QNMs) through the plunge, merger and ringdown of an extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral into a Schwarzschild black hole, for generic orbital configurations. We work out the QNM causality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Marina De Amicis , Enrico Cannizzaro , Gregorio Carullo , Laura Sberna

We study the quasinormal modes (QNM) for scalar, and electromagnetic perturbations in the Schwarzschild black hole with a deficit solid angle and quintessence-like matter. Using the sixth--order WKB approximation and the improved asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 L. A. López , Omar Pedraza , Roberto Arceo , V. Ceron

Quasinormal modes are eigenmodes of dissipative systems. Perturbations of classical gravitational backgrounds involving black holes or branes naturally lead to quasinormal modes. The analysis and classification of the quasinormal spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Andrei O. Starinets

The recent convergence of gravitational-wave (GW) observations and black hole imaging provides complementary probes of strong-gravity dynamics. While the black hole shadow is typically modeled as a static feature, a dynamically perturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Reggie C. Pantig

The Quasinormal modes (QNMs) for gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations are calculated in a Scalar-Tensor-Vector (Modified Gravity) spacetime, which was initially proposed to obtain correct dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Luciano Manfredi , Jonas Mureika , John Moffat

The intricacies of black hole ringdown analysis are amplified by the absence of a complete set of orthogonal basis functions for quasinormal modes. Although damped sinusoids effectively fit the ringdown signals from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Hengrui Zhu , Justin L. Ripley , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Frans Pretorius

We give insight into the critical problem of an open resonator that is subject to a perturbation outside of its cavity region. We utilize the framework of quasinormal modes (QNMs), which are the natural mode solutions to the open boundary…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-12 Sebastian Franke , Juanjuan Ren , Stephen Hughes

Micro- and nanoresonators, which enable light trapping in small volumes for extended durations, play a crucial role in modern photonics. The optical response of these resonators is determined by their fundamental resonances, known as…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-27 Tong Wu , Philippe Lalanne

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 present a novel approach to the numerical computation of quasi-normal modes, based on the first-order (in radial derivative) formulation of the equations of motion and using a matrix version of the continued fraction method. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Hugo Roussille , David Langlois , Karim Noui

Studies of quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes have a long and well established history. Predominantly, much research in this area has customarily focused on the equations given by Regge, Wheeler and Zerilli. In this work we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-05 Bishop Mongwane , Sipho Nkele , Didam G. A. Duniya , Nigel T. Bishop

We investigate how resonant excitation near exceptional points manifests in Kerr black hole ringdown waveforms and examine its extraction. Using waveforms generated by localized initial data, where quasinormal mode amplitudes are given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Kei-ichiro Kubota , Hayato Motohashi

This paper aims to explore the quasinormal modes (QNMs) and effective potential profiles of massless and rotating BTZ black holes within the frameworks of $f(\mathcal{R})$ and Ricci-Inverse ($\mathcal{RI}$) modified gravity theories, which,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-11 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , İzzet Sakallı , Abdelmalek Bouzenadad

We present a conceptually simple method for finding quasinormal modes (QNMs) in a Schwarzschild black hole. QNMs are defined by their boundary conditions at infinity and at the horizon. These include the intuitively satisfying assertion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Jeff Steinhauer

We investigate the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum for scalar perturbations of static, magnetically charged black holes in the presence of a quintessence field. The background geometry is obtained from the Einstein-Power-Maxwell action with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-12 Ali Hasnain

We first present a quasinormal mode (QNM) theory for coupled loss-gain resonators working near an exceptional point. Assuming linear media, which can be fully quantified using the complex pole properties of the QNMs, we show how the QNMs…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-04 Juanjuan Ren , Sebastian Franke , Stephen Hughes

Semi-analytical waveform models for black hole binaries require calibration against numerical relativity waveforms to accurately represent the late inspiral and merger, where analytical approximations fail. After the fitting coefficients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-29 Simone Mezzasoma , Carl-Johan Haster , Caroline B. Owen , Neil J. Cornish , Nicolás Yunes

The quasinormal modes (QNM's) of gravitational systems modeled by the Klein-Gordon equation with effective potentials are studied in analogy to the QNM's of optical cavities. Conditions are given for the QNM's to form a complete set, i.e.,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 E. S. C. Ching , P. T. Leung , W. M. Suen , K. Young

The parametrized black hole quasinormal ringdown formalism is useful to compute quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies if a master equation for the gravitational perturbation around a black hole has a small deviation from the Regge-Wheeler or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-27 Masashi Kimura