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Quasinormal modes (QNMs) uniquely describe the dominant piece of the gravitational-wave ringdown of postmerger black holes. While the linear QNM regime has been extensively studied, recent work has highlighted the importance of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-04 Patrick Bourg , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrew Spiers , Benjamin Leather , Béatrice Bonga , Adam Pound

The traditional approach to perturbations of nonrotating black holes in General Relativity uses the reformulation of the equations of motion into a radial second-order Schr\"odinger-like equation, whose asymptotic solutions are elementary.…

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Modelling the end point of binary black hole mergers is a cornerstone of modern gravitational-wave astronomy. Extracting multiple quasinormal mode frequencies from the ringdown signal allows the remnant black hole to be studied in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-11 Eliot Finch , Christopher J. Moore

The ringdown phase of the binary black hole (BBH) merger provides a clean and direct probe of strong-field gravity and tests of the nature of black holes. The quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies in modified gravity theories, as well as their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Zexin Hu , Daniela D. Doneva , Ziming Wang , Vasileios Paschalidis , Gabriele Bozzola , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Lijing Shao

Extracting quasinormal modes from compact binary mergers to perform black hole spectroscopy is one of the fundamental pillars in current and future strong-gravity tests. Among the most remarkable findings of recent works is that including a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 Peter James Nee , Sebastian H. Völkel , Harald P. Pfeiffer

In the aftermath of a binary black hole merger event, the gravitational wave signal emitted by the remnant black hole is modeled as a superposition of damped sinusoids known as quasinormal modes. While the dominant quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-18 Sophia Yi , Adrien Kuntz , Enrico Barausse , Emanuele Berti , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Konstantinos Kritos , Andrea Maselli

The ringdown of perturbed black holes has been studied since the 1970s, but until recently, studies have focused on linear perturbations. There is now burgeoning interest in nonlinear perturbative effects during ringdown. Here, using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Patrick Bourg , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Andrew Spiers , Benjamin Leather , Bonga Béatrice , Adam Pound

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes are crucial in understanding the ringdown phase after a merger. While for Kerr black holes these modes have been known for a long time, their calculation has remained a challenge in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

We compute the spectrum of quasinormal frequencies of regular black holes obtained in the presence of Non-Linear Electrodynamics. In particular, we perturb the black hole with a minimally coupled massive scalar field, and we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-24 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Ángel Rincón

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

The remnant black hole from a binary coalescence emits ringdown gravitational waves characterized by quasinormal modes, which depend solely on the remnant's mass and spin. In contrast, the ringdown amplitudes and phases are determined by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat , Francesco Nobili , Davide Gerosa

The ringdown phase following a binary black hole merger is usually assumed to be well described by a linear superposition of complex exponentials (quasinormal modes). In the strong-field conditions typical of a binary black hole merger,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Jose A. Gonzalez , Ulrich Sperhake

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 develop an analytic eikonal description of perturbations for four-dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity. Using first-order Schutz--Will WKB together with a small-coupling expansion and a large-$\ell$ expansion, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Alexey Dubinsky

Ringdown gravitational waves of compact object binaries observed by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors encapsulate rich information to understand remnant objects after the merger and to test general relativity in the strong field. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Norichika Sago , Soichiro Isoyama , Hiroyuki Nakano

The remnant of a black hole binary merger settles into a stationary configuration by "ringing down" through the emission of gravitational waves that consist of a superposition of damped exponentials with discrete complex frequencies - the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Matteo Della Rocca , Laura Pezzella , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli

Motivated by gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers, we present a procedure to compute the leading order nonlinear gravitational wave interactions around a Kerr black hole. We describe the formalism used to derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Nicholas Loutrel , Justin L. Ripley , Elena Giorgi , Frans Pretorius

Quadratic quasinormal modes (QQNMs) and Christodoulou memory effect are key nonlinear phenomena in gravitational wave physics. QQNMs characterize the near zone nonlinear response of a perturbed black hole, whereas the memory effect is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Jun-Xi Shi , Zhen-Tao He , Jiageng Jiao , Jing-Qi Lai , Caiying Shao , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang

After a long wait, gravitational wave astronomy has finally begun. Binary black hole mergers are being detected by LIGO and Virgo, and theorists are starting to receive a wealth of data to be analized. At this point we can at long last…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-26 Cecilia Chirenti

We formulate and calculate the second order quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a Schwarzschild black hole (BH). Gravitational wave (GW) from a distorted BH, so called ringdown, is well understood as QNMs in general relativity. Since QNMs from…

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