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Quadratic quasinormal modes encode fundamental properties of black hole spacetimes. They are also one of the key ingredients of nonlinearities of General Relativity in the ringdown stage of binary black hole coalescence. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Neev Khera , Sizheng Ma , Huan Yang

Using the WKB method, we show that the peak location ($r_{\rm peak}$) of the potential, which determines the quasinormal mode frequency of the Kerr black hole, obeys an accurate empirical relation as a function of the specific angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-29 Takashi Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakano

Scalar, vector and tensor perturbations on the Kerr spacetime are governed by equations that can be solved by separation of variables, but the same is not true in generic stationary and axisymmetric geometries. This complicates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajes Ghosh , Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse

In this work, we study the black hole light echoes in terms of the two-photon autocorrelation and explore their connection with the quasinormal modes. It is shown that the above time-domain phenomenon can be analyzed by utilizing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei-Liang Qian , Kai Lin , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Bin Wang , Rui-Hong Yue

The quasinormal-mode spectrum of the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole is studied in the limit of near-equal black-hole and cosmological radii. It is found that the mode_frequencies_ agree with the P"oschl-Teller approximation to one more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alec Maassen van den Brink

We compute quasinormal mode frequencies for static limits of physical black holes - semi-classical black hole solutions to Einstein-Hilbert gravity characterized by the finite formation time of an apparent horizon and its weak regularity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-11 Fil Simovic , Daniel R. Terno

Quadratic quasi-normal modes, generated at second order in black hole perturbation theory, are a promising target for testing gravity in the nonlinear regime with next-generation gravitational wave detectors. While their frequencies have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-16 Bruno Bucciotti , Leonardo Juliano , Adrien Kuntz , Enrico Trincherini

It is known that the spectrum of quasi-normal modes of potential barriers is related to the spectrum of bound states of the corresponding potential wells. This property has been widely used to compute black hole quasi-normal modes, but it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-15 Sebastian H. Völkel

Much of our physical intuition about black hole quasinormal modes in general relativity comes from the eikonal/geometric optics approximation. According to the well-established eikonal model, the fundamental quasinormal mode represents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Kostas Glampedakis , Hector O. Silva

The quasinormal modes of metric perturbations in asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes in the Lovelock model are calculated for different spacetime dimensions and higher orders of curvature. It is analytically established that in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 C. B. Prasobh , V. C. Kuriakose

Quasinormal modes provide valuable information about the structure of spacetime outside a black hole. There is also a conjectured relationship between the highly damped quasinormal modes and the semi-classical spectrum of the horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 James Babb , Ramin G. Daghigh , Gabor Kunstatter

We investigate black hole quasinormal modes using the exact WKB method. We perform an analytic continuation from the horizon to infinity along the positive real axis of the radial coordinate and impose appropriate boundary conditions at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Taiga Miyachi , Ryo Namba , Hidetoshi Omiya , Naritaka Oshita

The Newman-Penrose formalism is used to deal with the quasinormal modes(QNM's) of Rarita-Schwinger perturbations outside a Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole. We obtain four kinds of possible expressions of effective potentials, which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Fu-Wen Shu , You-Gen Shen

In this paper, we examine the behavior of modes of the Kerr geometry when the mode's frequency is purely imaginary. We demonstrate that quasinormal modes must be polynomial in nature if their frequency is purely imaginary, and present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Gregory B. Cook , Maxim Zalutskiy

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

General Relativity predicts the existence of quadratic quasi-normal modes at second order in perturbation theory. Building on our recent work, we compute the amplitudes and polarizations of these modes for non-rotating black holes, showing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Bruno Bucciotti , Leonardo Juliano , Adrien Kuntz , Enrico Trincherini

We provide an in-depth investigation of quasinormal-mode oscillations of Kerr black holes with nearly extremal angular momenta. We first discuss in greater detail the two distinct types of quasinormal mode frequencies presented in a recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-28 Huan Yang , Aaron Zimmerman , Anıl Zenginoğlu , Fan Zhang , Emanuele Berti , Yanbei Chen

We present a comprehensive study of the quasinormal modes of a new class of nonlocal static and spherically symmetric black hole (BH) solutions within the framework of the revised Deser-Woodard theory of gravity. These solutions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Rocco D'Agostino , Vittorio De Falco

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

In this work, we explore the connection between the critical curves ("shadows") and the quasinormal mode frequencies (in the eikonal limit) of Kerr black holes. This mapping has been previously established for non-rotating black holes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Huan Yang