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Gravitational waves emitted from the gravitational ringing of supermassive black holes are important targets to test general relativity and probe the matter environment surrounding such black holes. The main components of the ringing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 Chao Zhang , Tao Zhu , Xiongjun Fang , Anzhong Wang

Einstein's theory of gravity admits a low energy effective quantum field description from which predictions beyond classical general relativity can be drawn. As gravitational wave detectors improve, one may ask whether non-classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Thiago Guerreiro

The merger of binary black holes produces a series of decaying oscillations, during which energy is radiated in gravitational waves. The characteristic signal in the ringdown phase can be described by complex oscillation frequencies called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanqiang Liu , Benrong Mu , Jun Tao , Yuling Weng

Black holes regain their static configuration by emitting ringdown gravitational waves, whose amplitude decays in time following a power law at fixed spatial positions. We show that the nonlinear decay power law may be obtained by simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 A. Ianniccari , L. Lo Bianco , A. Riotto

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 present a study of the gravitational waveforms from a series of spinning, equal-mass black hole binaries focusing on the harmonic content of the waves and the contribution of the individual harmonics to the signal-to-noise ratio. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Deirdre Shoemaker , Birjoo Vaishnav , Ian Hinder , Frank Herrmann

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black holes allow for unprecedented probes of strong-field gravity. Testing gravity in this regime requires accurate predictions of gravitational waveform templates in viable extensions of General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

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 investigate the possibility of electromagnetic fields leaving imprints on gravitational wave (GW) signals from Neutron Star-Black hole (NSBH) mergers, specifically in the context of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Using black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fawzi Aly , Mahmoud A. Mansour , Dejan Stojkovic

Black hole perturbation theory is useful for studying the stability of black holes and calculating ringdown gravitational waves after the collision of two black holes. Most previous calculations were carried out at the level of the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 Justin L. Ripley , Kent Yagi

Perturbations form an important section of black hole analyses. This paper deals with the effect of perturbations as in the delineation of waves that occur. It makes use of the spin coefficients from [3] to represent the general equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kartheek R Solipuram

Ringdown signals from perturbed black holes (BHs) offer a clean window into BH spacetime, strong-field gravity, and fundamental physics. Presently the quasi-normal modes of stellar-mass BH ringdowns have been successfully extracted in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Ziming Wang , Han Wang , Yuxin Yang , Yiming Dong , Hai-Tian Wang , Yi-Ming Hu , Lijing Shao

The gravitational radiation emitted during the merger of a black hole with a neutron star is rather similar to the radiation from the merger of two black holes when the neutron star is not tidally disrupted. When tidal disruption occurs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Francesco Pannarale , Emanuele Berti , Koutarou Kyutoku , Benjamin D. Lackey , Masaru Shibata

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 John G. Baker , William D. Boggs , Joan Centrella , Bernard J. Kelly , Sean T. McWilliams , James R. van Meter

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

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

Tidal disruption has a dramatic impact on the outcome of neutron star-black hole mergers. The phenomenology of these systems can be divided in three classes: nondisruptive, mildly disruptive or disruptive. The cutoff frequency of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 Francesco Pannarale , Emanuele Berti , Koutarou Kyutoku , Benjamin D. Lackey , Masaru Shibata

We examine the robustness of black hole ringdown to stochastic horizon-scale structure within an effective field framework. Consistent with the understanding that the spectral instability of quasinormal modes does not necessarily imply…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Han-Wen Hu , Cheng-Jun Fang , Zong-Kuan Guo

An accurate and precise measurement of the spins of individual merging black holes is required to understand their origin. While previous studies have indicated that most of the spin information comes from the inspiral part of the signal,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Maximiliano Isi , Vijay Varma , Salvatore Vitale

Modelling of gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral has played an important role in the recent observations of such signals. The late-stage ringdown phase of the gravitational waveform is often associated with the null particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-03 Gaurav Khanna , Richard H. Price