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Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) offer a promising avenue to test extra-dimensional physics through gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this work, we study equatorial eccentric EMRIs around a spherically symmetric braneworld black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Shailesh Kumar , Tieguang Zi , Arpan Bhattacharyya

The orbital motion of inspiralling and coalescing black hole binaries can be investigated using a variety of approximation schemes and numerical methods within general relativity: post-Newtonian expansions, black hole perturbation theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-03 Alexandre Le Tiec

We perform a fully relativistic analysis of odd-type linear perturbations around a static and spherically symmetric solution in the most general scalar-tensor theory with second-order field equations in four-dimensional spacetime. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama

Gravitational wave astronomy has tremendous potential for studying extreme astrophysical phenomena and exploring fundamental physics. The waves produced by binary black hole mergers will provide a pristine environment in which to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Neil Cornish , Laura Sampson , Nico Yunes , Frans Pretorius

The quadratic gravity constraints are reformulated in terms of the Newman-Penrose-like quantities. In such a frame language, the field equations represent a linear algebraic system for the Ricci tensor components. In principle, a procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Robert Svarc , Alena Pravdova , David Miskovsky

Black hole ringdowns in extensions of General Relativity (GR) generically exhibit two distinct signatures: (1) theory-dependent shifts in the standard black-hole quasinormal modes, and (2) additional modes arising from extra fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Francesco Crescimbeni , Xisco Jimenez-Forteza , Paolo Pani

We propose a new parametric framework to describe in generic metric theories of gravity the spacetime of spherically symmetric and slowly rotating black holes. In contrast to similar approaches proposed so far, we do not use a Taylor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-09 Luciano Rezzolla , Alexander Zhidenko

We determine the possible gravitational wave polarizations in two general classes of teleparallel gravity theories, using the metric and symmetric teleparallel geometries. For this purpose we apply the Newman-Penrose formalism, and find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-09 Manuel Hohmann

We investigate propagation of gravitational waves in the most general teleparallel gravity model with second order field equations around the Minkowski background. We argue that in this case the most general Lagrangian at the first order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer , Ulbossyn Ualikhanova

The existence of black holes is one of the key predictions of general relativity (GR) and therefore a basic consistency test for modified theories of gravity. In the case of spherical symmetry in GR the existence of an apparent horizon and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Sebastian Murk , Daniel R. Terno

We present a new covariant, gauge-invariant formalism describing linear metric perturbation fields on any spherically symmetric background in general relativity. The advantage of this formalism relies in the fact that it does not require a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-15 Eliana Chaverra , Néstor Ortiz , Olivier Sarbach

In linear perturbation theory for Kerr black holes, there are two equivalent formalisms, namely the Teukolsky and the Sasaki-Nakamura (SN) formalism. Typically, one defaults to the Teukolsky formalism, especially when calculating extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-13 Yucheng Yin , Rico K. L. Lo , Xian Chen

In this work, we introduce a novel framework to investigate ringdown gravitational waveforms in the presence of dynamical matter fields outside the horizon of a black hole. We systematically analyze two distinct scenarios of dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Ying-Lei Tian , Hao Yang , Chen Lan , Yan-Gang Miao

Symmetric teleparallel gravity (STG) offers an interesting third geometric interpretation of gravitation besides its formulation in terms of a spacetime metric and Levi-Civita connection or its teleparallel formulation. It describes gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Jackson Levi Said , Ulbossyn Ualikhanova

The use of physical phenomena in the strong-field regime has become a primarily methodology for probing quantum-corrected gravity. This paper investigates periodic orbits, gravitational waves, and accretion disk radiation for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Shilong Huang , Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

In this paper we continue the analysis of our previous papers and study the affect of the existence of a non-trivial dilaton background on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the Kerr-Newman dilatonic black hole space-time. For this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Casadio , B. Harms

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

The computation of gravitational radiation generated by the coalescence of inspiralling binary black holes is nowdays one of the main goals of numerical relativity. Perturbation theory has emerged as an ubiquitous tool for all those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Manuela Campanelli

The growing number of gravitational wave (GW) detections and the increasing sensitivity of GW detectors have enabled precision tests of General Relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. The recent observation of multiple quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-27 David G. Wu , Asad Hussain , Aaron Zimmerman

Using an improved version of the Newman-Janis algorithm, we obtain metrics of rotating black holes for a set of extended gravity theories that extend general relativity in different ways: the Horndeski model, the bumblebee model, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-24 Stanislav Alexeyev , Oleg Zenin , Artem Baiderin