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The Penrose limit connects a plane wave geometry to the photon ring of a black hole, where the quasi-normal modes are located in the eikonal limit. Utilizing this simplification, we analytically extract the quadratic-level non-linearities…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Alex Kehagias , Davide Perrone , Antonio Riotto

After a brief introduction to quasinormal modes in dissipative systems, we review the WKB formalism in the context of the analytical calculation of quasinormal frequencies. We apply these results to the calculation of quasinormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Filipe Moura , João Rodrigues

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

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

In a recent series of papers we have shown how the eikonal/geometrical optics approximation can be used to calculate analytically the fundamental quasinormal mode frequencies associated with coupled systems of wave equations, which arise,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Albert Bryant , Hector O. Silva , Kent Yagi , Kostas Glampedakis

Quasinormal modes (QNMs) are usually characterized by their time dependence; oscillations at specific frequencies predicted by black hole (BH) perturbation theory. QNMs are routinely identified in the ringdown of numerical relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Richard Dyer , Christopher J. Moore

The merger of binary black holes produces a series of decaying oscillations, during which energy is radiated in gravitational waves. The characteristic signal in the ringdown phase can be described by complex oscillation frequencies called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanqiang Liu , Benrong Mu , Jun Tao , Yuling Weng

The quasinormal modes of metric perturbations in asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes in the Lovelock model are calculated for different spacetime dimensions and higher orders of curvature. It is analytically established that in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 C. B. Prasobh , V. C. Kuriakose

Detailed observations of phenomena involving black holes, be it via gravitational waves or more traditional electromagnetic means, can probe the strong field regime of the gravitational interaction. The prediction of features in such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Andrew Sullivan , Nicolás Yunes , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Quasinormal modes and grey-body factors are spectral characteristics corresponding to different boundary conditions: the former imply purely outgoing waves to the event horizon and infinity, while the latter allow for an incoming wave from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

In this paper, we investigate analytically the level space of the imaginary part of quasinormal frequencies for a black hole with a deficit solid angle and quintessence-like matter by the Padmanabhan's method \cite{Padmanabhan}. Padmanabhan…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Ping Xi , Xi-chen Ao , Xin-zhou Li

Black holes in General Relativity are described by space-time metrics that are simpler in comparison to non-vacuum compact objects. However, given the universality of the gravitational pull, it is expected that dark matter accumulates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Caio F. B. Macedo , João Luís Rosa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

In recent works, a framework has been developed to describe (quantum) deformed, spherically symmetric and static black holes in four dimensions. The key idea of this so-called Effective Metric Description (EMD) is to parametrise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-26 Stefan Hohenegger

We study the motion of light in the gravitational field of two Schwarzschild black holes, making the approximation that they are far apart, so that the motion of light rays in the neighborhood of one black hole can be considered to be the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alessandro P. S. de Moura , Patricio S. Letelier

It is broadly believed that quasinormal modes cannot tell the black-hole near-horizon geometry, because usually the low-lying modes are determined by the scattering of perturbations around the peak of the effective potential. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-07 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

Born-Infeld electrodynamics has attracted considerable interest due to its relation to strings and D-branes. In this paper the gravitational perturbations of electrically charged black holes in Einstein-Born-Infeld gravity are studied.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-02 Sharmanthie Fernando

We employ the method of comparison equations to study the propagation of a massless minimally coupled scalar field on the Schwarzschild background. In particular, we show that this method allows us to obtain explicit approximate expressions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Roberto Casadio , Mattia Luzzi

In recent years, gravitational-wave astronomy has motivated increasingly accurate perturbative studies of gravitational dynamics in compact binaries. This in turn has enabled more detailed analyses of the dynamical black holes in these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-24 Riccardo Bonetto , Adam Pound , Zeyd Sam

The paper studies axial gravitational perturbations of the Hayward black hole, a regular geometry that also arises as an effective solution in asymptotically safe gravity. By computing grey-body factors with the 6th-order WKB method and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Zainab Malik

We often encounter a situation that black hole solutions can be regarded as continuous deformations of simpler ones, or modify general relativity by continuous parameters. We develop a general framework to compute high-order perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Masashi Kimura