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We study quasinormal modes related to gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations of spherically symmetric charged black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics. Beyond the linear Maxwell electrodynamics, we consider a class of Lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-07 Kimihiro Nomura , Daisuke Yoshida

Using series solutions and time-domain evolutions, we probe the eikonal limit of the gravitational and scalar-field quasinormal modes of large black holes and black branes in anti-de Sitter backgrounds. These results are particularly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 Jaqueline Morgan , Vitor Cardoso , Alex S. Miranda , C. Molina , Vilson T. Zanchin

The detection of quadratic quasi-normal modes would provide a direct probe into black hole nonlinear perturbations. We report the first observational evidence of a set of quadratic quasi-normal modes in the gravitational-wave ringdown of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-12 Yi-Fan Wang , Sizheng Ma , Neev Khera , Huan Yang

The response of black holes to small perturbations is known to be partially described by a superposition of quasinormal modes. Despite their importance to enable strong-field tests of gravity, little to nothing is known about what overtones…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-25 Hector O. Silva , Giovanni Tambalo , Kostas Glampedakis , Kent Yagi , Jan Steinhoff

In this paper, we present an enhanced semi-analytic method for calculating quasinormal excitation factors in the eikonal regime, specifically for Schwarzschild black holes. To achieve improved accuracy in our quasinormal mode computations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-29 Chun-Hung Chen , Hing-Tong Cho , Anna Chrysostomou , Alan S. Cornell

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

Recently, Bueno, Cano, and Hennigar [arXiv:2403.04827] proposed a generic approach for incorporating an infinite tower of higher-curvature corrections into the Einstein theory. In this study, we compute quasinormal modes for certain regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

The Newman-Penrose formalism is used to deal with the massless scalar, neutrino, electromagnetic, gravitino and gravitational quasinormal modes (QNMs) in Schwarzschild black holes in a united form. The quasinormal mode frequencies evaluated…

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

Black hole spectroscopy is the program to measure the complex gravitational-wave frequencies of merger remnants, and to quantify their agreement with the characteristic frequencies of black holes computed at linear order in black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Vishal Baibhav , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Gregorio Carullo , Roberto Cotesta , Walter Del Pozzo , Francisco Duque

While black hole perturbation theory predicts a rich quasi-normal mode structure, technical challenges have limited the numerical study of excitations to the fundamental, lowest order modes caused by the coalescence of black holes. Here, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Lionel London , James Healy , Deirdre Shoemaker

We calculate high-order quasinormal modes with large imaginary frequencies for electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations in nearly extremal Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes. Our results show that for low-order quasinormal modes, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Shijun Yoshida , Toshifumi Futamase

Due to the nature of gravity, non-linear effects are left imprinted in the quasi-normal modes generated in the ringdown phase of the merger of two black holes. We offer an analytical treatment of the quasi-normal modes at second-order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Davide Perrone , Thomas Barreira , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

We study quasinormal modes of static Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-dilaton black holes. Both axial and polar perturbations are considered and studied from $l=0$ to $l=3$. We emphasize the difference in the spectrum between the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-11 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Jutta Kunz

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

We study the quasinormal modes (QNM) for scalar, and electromagnetic perturbations in the Schwarzschild black hole with a deficit solid angle and quintessence-like matter. Using the sixth--order WKB approximation and the improved asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 L. A. López , Omar Pedraza , Roberto Arceo , V. Ceron

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 Phys. Rev. D 79, 064016 (2009) it was claimed that quasinormal modes which any stationary, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat black hole emits in the eikonal regime are determined by the parameters of the circular null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-23 R. A. Konoplya , Z. Stuchlík

Linear perturbations of spherically symmetric spacetimes in general relativity are described by radial wave equations, with potentials that depend on the spin of the perturbing field. In previous work we studied the quasinormal mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Ryan McManus , Emanuele Berti , Caio F. B. Macedo , Masashi Kimura , Andrea Maselli , Vitor Cardoso

It is well established that the response of a black hole to a generic perturbation is characterized by a spectrum of damped resonances, called quasinormal modes; and that, in the limit of large angular momentum ($l \gg 1$), the quasinormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Sam R. Dolan

The deviations of non-linear perturbations of black holes from the linear case are important in the context of ringdown signals with large signal-to-noise ratio. To facilitate a comparison between the two we derive several results of linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Maitraya K Bhattacharyya , David Hilditch , K Rajesh Nayak , Hannes R. Rüter , Bernd Bruegmann