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The perturbations of the Kerr metric and the miracle of their exact solutions play a critical role in the comparison of predictions of general relativity with astrophysical observations of compact massive objects. The differential equations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

We provide semi-analytic expressions for quasinormal mode frequencies of slowly rotating Kerr black holes to the quadratic order in the rotation parameter. We apply the parametrized black hole quasinormal mode ringdown formalism to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Masashi Kimura

We consider the problem of quasinormal modes (QNM) for strongly hyperbolic systems on stationary, asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes, with very general boundary conditions at infinity. We argue that for a time slicing regular at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Claude M. Warnick

We report a new method to calculate the quasinormal modes of rotating black holes, using a spectral decomposition to solve the partial differential equations that result from introducing linear metric perturbations to a rotating background.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-18 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Jutta Kunz , Luis Manuel González-Romero

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

We present a concise review of known analytic results for quasinormal modes of black holes and related spacetimes. Our emphasis is on those regimes where the perturbation equations admit exact or perturbative solutions, providing insights…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-08 S. V. Bolokhov , Milena Skvortsova

In this work we present a formulation of the Teukolsky equation for generic spin perturbations on the hyperboloidal and horizon penetrating foliation of Kerr recently proposed by Racz and Toth. An additional, spin-dependent rescaling of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-15 Enno Harms , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann

We present a polynomial basis that exactly tridiagonalizes Teukolsky's radial equation for quasi-normal modes. These polynomials naturally emerge from the radial problem, and they are canonical in that they possess key features of classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Lionel London , Michelle Foucoin

The aim of this paper is to present a general way to calculate quasi-normal modes (QNM) of the Teukolsky equation for higher dimensional (d > 4) Kerr spacetime with compactified extra dimensions. In order to do so, we develop a formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Mattia Villani

We introduce the modified Teukolsky equation within a parameterized framework, analogous to the case of small deviations of potential in spherical symmetry. Both the radial and angular equations acquire modifications described by two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Zhe Yu , Liang-Bi Wu

In this work, we have calculated the polar gravitational quasinormal modes for a quantum corrected black hole model, that arises in the context of Loop Quantum Gravity, known as Self-Dual Black Hole. In this way, we have calculated the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 M. B. Cruz , F. A. Brito , C. A. S. Silva

The proper understanding of the electromagnetic counterpart of gravity-waves emitters is of serious interest to the multimessenger astronomy. In this article, we study the numerical stability of the quasinormal modes (QNM) and quasibound…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 Denitsa Staicova , Plamen Fiziev

We provide a rigorous definition of quasinormal modes for the Kerr black hole. They are obtained as the discrete set of poles of the meromorphically continued cutoff resolvent. The construction combines the method of complex scaling near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Thomas Stucker

We discuss a new ringdown frequency mode for vacuum perturbations of the Kerr black hole. We evolve initial data for the vacuum radial Teukolsky equation using a near horizon approximation, and find a frequency mode analogous to that found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Aaron Zimmerman , Yanbei Chen

The quasinormal modes of black holes (BHs) in the large-angular-momentum limit can be computed within the eikonal approximation. This approximation is often extrapolated to low angular momentum to obtain a rough estimate of the dominant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Paolo Pani , Andrea P. Sanna

We present new analytic results on black hole perturbation theory. Our results are based on a novel relation to four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. We propose an exact version of Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-12 Gleb Aminov , Alba Grassi , Yasuyuki Hatsuda

We carry out the first computation of gravitational quasinormal modes of black holes with arbitrary rotation in a theory with higher-derivative corrections. Our analysis focuses on a recently identified quartic-curvature theory that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Pablo A. Cano , Marina David , Guido van der Velde

Although finding numerically the quasinormal modes of a nonrotating black hole is a well-studied question, the physics of the problem is often hidden behind complicated numerical procedures aimed at avoiding the direct solution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-26 Plamen Fiziev , Denitsa Staicova

We compute the quasinormal frequencies of rotating black holes using the continued fraction method first proposed by Leaver. The main difference with former works, is that our results are obtained by a new numerical technique which avoids…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Giammatteo

We calculate analytically asymptotic values of quasi-normal frequencies of four-dimensional Kerr black holes by solving the Teukolsky wave equation. We obtain an expression for arbitrary spin of the wave in agreement with Hod's proposal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Suphot Musiri , George Siopsis