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We derive the tensor gravitational waveform generated by a binary of nonspinning compact objects (black holes or neutron stars) in a general class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The waveform is accurate to second post-Newtonian order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-15 Ryan N. Lang

We derive a formalism for solving the Lorenz gauge equations for metric perturbations of Kerr spacetime sourced by an arbitrary stress-energy tensor. The metric perturbation is obtained as a sum of differential operators acting on a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Barry Wardell , Chris Kavanagh , Sam R. Dolan

We investigate the Teukolsky equation in horizon-penetrating coordinates to study the behavior of perturbation waves crossing the outer horizon. For this purpose, we use the null ingoing/outgoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. The first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 Fawzi Aly , Dejan Stojkovic

In this work, we base on the second-order post-Minkowskian equations of motion, and apply an iterative technique to analytically derive the gravitational deflection of the relativistic particles in the equatorial plane of Kerr-Newman black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Guansheng He , Wenbin Lin

Amazingly, recent studies indicate that nonlinear effects are of great significance for modelling black hole ringdown. Transient electromagnetic events in the astrophysical environment are typically high energetic, potentially responsible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Zhen-Tao He , Jia Du , Jiageng Jiao , Caiying Shao , Junxi Shi , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang

In this second paper of our series started with \cite{Berens2024}, we investigate linearized gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole in a non-asymptotically flat spacetime with (anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

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 determine the metric of a Kerr black hole subject to external tidal fields using metric reconstruction techniques. Working within the Newman-Penrose formalism, we solve the Teukolsky master equation for static, quadrupolar modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Marta Cocco , Gianluca Grignani , Troels Harmark , Marta Orselli , David Pereñiguez , Maarten van de Meent

In this paper, we prove energy and Morawetz estimates for solutions to Teukolsky equations in spacetimes with metrics that are perturbations, compatible with nonlinear applications, of Kerr metrics in the full subextremal range. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Siyuan Ma , Jérémie Szeftel

Using the recently derived higher spin gravitational Compton amplitude from low-energy analytically continued ($a/Gm\gg1$) solutions of the Teukolsky equation for the scattering of a gravitational wave off the Kerr black hole, observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Yilber Fabian Bautista

A new version of the Teukolksy Master Equation, describing any massless field of different spin $s=1/2,1,3/2,2$ in the Kerr black hole, is presented here in the form of a wave equation containing additional curvature terms. These results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Donato Bini , Christian Cherubini , Robert T Jantzen , Remo J. Ruffini

We establish boundedness and polynomial decay results for the Teukolsky system in the exterior spacetime of very slowly rotating and strongly charged sub-extremal Kerr-Newman black holes, with a focus on axially symmetric solutions. The key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Elena Giorgi , Jingbo Wan

We study numerically in the time domain the linearized gravitational waves emitted from a plunge into a nearly extremal Kerr black hole by solving the inhomogeneous Teukolsky equation. We consider spinning black holes for which the specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna

Gravitational waves from the explosive merger of distant black holes are encoded with details regarding the complex extreme-gravity spacetime present at their source. Famously described by the Kerr spacetime metric for rotating black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-29 Zack Carson , Kent Yagi

Accurate calculation of the motion of a compact object in a background spacetime induced by a supermassive black hole is required for the future detection of such binary systems by the gravitational-wave detector LISA. Reaching the desired…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Rosenthal

The equations for the second-order gravitational perturbations produced by a compact-object have highly singular source terms at the point particle limit. At this limit the standard retarded solutions to these equations are ill-defined.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Rosenthal

Perturbation theory of rotating black holes is described in terms of the Weyl scalars $\psi_4$ and $\psi_0$; each satisfying the Teukolsky's complex master wave equation with spin $s=\mp2$, and respectively representing outgoing and ingoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos O. Lousto

We compare the fully nonlinear and perturbative evolution of nonrotating black holes with odd-parity distortions utilizing the perturbative results to interpret the nonlinear results. This introduction of the second polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J Baker , S Brandt , M Campanelli , C O Lousto , E Seidel , R Takahashi

We revisit the quasinormal-mode/greybody factor correspondence for Kerr black holes in the eikonal limit and develop a systematic WKB-based formulation by recasting the radial Teukolsky equation into a Schr\"odinger-type equation with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Zun-Xian Huang , Peng-Cheng Li

In this work we present the first calculation of the gravitational self-force on generic bound geodesics in Kerr spacetime to first order in the mass-ratio. That is, the local correction to equations of motion for a compact object orbiting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-30 Maarten van de Meent