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The accurate computation of quasinormal modes from rotating black holes beyond general relativity is crucial for testing fundamental physics with gravitational waves. In this study, we assess the accuracy of the eikonal and post-Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Ciro De Simone , Sebastian H. Völkel , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Vittorio De Falco , Salvatore Capozziello

We consider a varieties of quintessence scalar field models in a homogeneous and isotropic geometry of the universe with zero spatial curvature aiming to provide stringent constraints using a series of cosmological data sets, namely, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Weiqiang Yang , M. Shahalam , Barun Pal , Supriya Pan , Anzhong Wang

We study scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations of three families of regular black holes, Hayward, Bardeen, and Ayon-Beato-Garc\'ia immersed in a Perfect Fluid Dark Matter (PFDM) background. Using both the sixth-order WKB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 L. O. Téllez Tovar , Omar Pedraza , L. A. López , R. Arceo

The quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a black hole spacetime are the free, decaying oscillations of the spacetime, and are well understood in the case of Kerr black holes. We discuss a method for computing the QNMs of spacetimes which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Zimmerman , Huan Yang , Zachary Mark , Yanbei Chen , Luis Lehner

Photon circular orbits, an extreme case of light deflection, are among the hallmarks of black holes and are known to play a central role in a variety of phenomena related to these extreme objects. The very existence of such orbits when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-28 Kostas Glampedakis , George Pappas

This thesis aims to explore the properties of the motion of finite size, compact test bodies around a Kerr black hole in the small mass-ratio approximation. The small body is modelled as a perturbation of Kerr geometry, neglecting its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Adrien Druart

In this work, we explore the influence of nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) on the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of a magnetic charged black hole by analyzing the motion of test particles and their epicyclic frequencies. Starting from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 Bidyut Hazarika , Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Prabwal Phukon

In this paper, we study the motion of test particles around two exact charged black-hole solutions in Einstein-{\AE}ther theory. Specifically, we first consider the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and their resonances generated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-18 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Zihang Chen , Bojun Deng , Mubasher Jamil , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Yen-Kheng Lim

Near-future, space-based, radio- and gravitational-wave interferometry missions will enable us to rigorously test whether the Kerr solution of general relativity accurately describes astrophysical black holes, or if it requires some kind of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Pablo A. Cano , Alexander Deich , Nicolás Yunes

We generalize to Kerr spacetime previous gravitational self-force results on gyroscope precession along circular orbits in the Schwarzschild spacetime. In particular we present high order post- Newtonian expansions for the gauge invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Donato Bini , Thibault Damour , Andrea Geralico , Chris Kavanagh , Maarten van de Meent

We present new, tight, constraints on the cosmological background of gravitational waves (GWs) using the latest measurements of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies provided by the Planck, BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Giovanni Cabass , Luca Pagano , Laura Salvati , Martina Gerbino , Elena Giusarma , Alessandro Melchiorri

Variability is a typical observation feature of Fermi blazars, sometimes it shows quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO). In this work, we obtained 5-day binned light curves (with a time coverage of $\sim$ 12.9 yr) for S5 1044+71 based on Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 G. G. Wang , J. T. Cai , J. H. Fan

The Accretion-Ejection Instability has been proposed to explain the low frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) observed in low-mass X-Ray Binaries, in particular Black-Hole candidates. Its frequency, typically a fraction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Varniere , J. Rodriguez , M. Tagger

Observation of the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy RE J1034+396 is believed to demonstrate a drift of the central period of the Quasi Periodic Oscillation (QPO) linearly correlated with the temporary X-ray luminosity. We show, using a specific…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Tapas Kumar Das , Bozena Czerny

Future very-large-area X-ray instruments (for which the effective area is larger than $>3$m$^2$) will be able to measure the frequencies of quasi-periodic oscillations~(QPOs) observed in the X-ray flux from accreting compact objects with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Roberto Cotesta , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari , Luigi Stella

The Kerr metric is one of the most important solutions to Einstein's field equations, describing the gravitational field outside a rotating black hole. We thoroughly analyze the curvature scalar invariants to study the Kerr spacetime by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-10 Majd Abdelqader , Kayll Lake

The quasinormal resonant modes of massless neutral fields in near-extremal Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black-hole spacetimes are calculated in the eikonal regime. It is explicitly proved that, in the angular momentum regime ${\bar a}>…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Shahar Hod

The relativistic precession model (RPM) is widely-considered as a benchmark framework to interpret quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), albeit several observational inconsistencies suggest that the model remains incomplete. The RPM ensures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Gabriele Bianchini , Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

We present a generic criterion which can be used in gravitational-wave data analysis to distinguish an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral into a Kerr background spacetime from one into a non-Kerr background spacetime. The criterion exploits the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Theocharis A. Apostolatos , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , George Contopoulos

We study optical effects in quintessential Kerr black hole spacetimes corresponding to the limiting case of the equation-of-state parameter $\omega_{q}=-1/3$ of the quintessence. In dependence on the dimensionless quintessential field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Jan Schee , Zdenek Stuchlik