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The quasi normal modes (QNMs) associated with gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole (BBH) mergers can provide deep insight into the remnant's properties. Once design sensitivity is achieved, present ground-based gravitational…

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We revisit the modelling of black hole ringdown beyond General Relativity (GR), emphasizing the limitations of approaches that rely solely on shifted quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies. Starting from modified Teukolsky equations in such…

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The aftermath of binary black hole coalescence is a perturbed remnant whose gravitational radiation rings down, encoding information about the new black hole's recent history and current state.It is expected that this ringdown radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 L. London

We study the inspiral, merger and ringdown of unequal mass black hole binaries by analyzing a catalogue of numerical simulations for seven different values of the mass ratio (from q=M2/M1=1 to q=4). We compare numerical and Post-Newtonian…

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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

Recent works have suggested that nonlinear (quadratic) effects in black hole perturbation theory may be important for describing a black hole ringdown. We show that the technique of uniform approximations can be used to accurately compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Bruno Bucciotti , Adrien Kuntz , Francesco Serra , Enrico Trincherini

In any extension of General Relativity (GR), extra fundamental degrees of freedom couple to gravity. Besides deforming GR forecasts in a theory-dependent way, this coupling generically introduces extra modes in the gravitational-wave…

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It is believed that in the near future, gravitational wave detections will become a promising tool not only to test gravity theories, but also to probe extremely curved spacetime regions in our universe, such as the surroundings of black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-15 Che-Yu Chen , Pisin Chen

There is a well-known, intuitive geometric correspondence between high-frequency QNMs of Schwarzschild black holes and null geodesics that reside on the light-ring : the real part of the mode's frequency relates to the geodesic's orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-19 Huan Yang , David A. Nichols , Fan Zhang , Aaron Zimmerman , Zhongyang Zhang , Yanbei Chen

Black-hole quasinormal modes (QNM) have been the subject of much recent attention, with the hope that these oscillation frequencies may shed some light on the elusive theory of quantum gravity. We compare numerical results for the QNM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shahar Hod

We investigate quasinormal modes (QNMs) of scalar, electromagnetic, and axial gravitational perturbations in slowly rotating Kalb-Ramond (KR) black holes, where an antisymmetric tensor field induces spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Weike Deng , Wentao Liu , Kui Xiao , Jiliang Jing

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

Black hole (BH) perturbation is followed by a ringdown phase which is dominated by quasinormal modes (QNM). These modes may provide key signature of the gravitational waves. The presence of a deformed spacetime structure may distort this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić , Nikola Konjik , Andjelo Samsarov

The ringdown portion of a binary black hole merger consists of a sum of modes, each containing an infinite number of tones that are exponentially damped sinusoids. In principle, these can be measured as gravitational-waves with…

For a distorted black hole (BH), its ringdown waveform is a superposition of quasi-normal modes (QNMs). In general relativity (GR), the lower order QNM frequencies and damping rates can be well approximated by a polynomial of BH's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Ke Wang

The possibility of testing gravity theories with the help of gravitational wave detections has become an interesting arena of recent research. In this paper, we follow this direction by investigating the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-30 Che-Yu Chen , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Pisin Chen

We investigate scalar field perturbations of the rotating Teo wormhole. We also compute the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum using first order WKB approximation. After separation of variables, we obtain a Schroedinger type radial equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Ramesh Radhakrishnan , Gerald Cleaver , Delaram Mirfendereski , Eric Davis , Claudio Cremaschini

Black hole perturbation theory is a useful approach to study interactions between black holes and fundamental fields. A particular class of black hole solutions arising out of modification of Einstein's general theory of relativity are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-25 Davood Mahdavian Yekta , Majid Karimabadi , S. A. Alavi

Accurate modeling of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers is essential for extracting their rich physics. A key detail for understanding the physics of mergers is predicting the precise time when the amplitude of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Anuj Kankani , Sean T. McWilliams

We present a prescription for computing gravitational waveforms for the inspiral, merger and ringdown of non-spinning eccentric binary black hole systems. The inspiral waveform is computed using the post-Newtonian expansion and the merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Ian Hinder , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer