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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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In this letter, we provide a novel test of general relativity based on ringdown analysis. The test is performed on agnostic models, where the postmerger signal is fitted with a superposition of damped sinusoids. If at least two modes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Nicola Franchini

General relativity predicts that a black hole that results from the merger of two compact stars (either black holes or neutron stars) is initially highly deformed but soon settles down to a quiescent state by emitting a superposition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 S. Gossan , J. Veitch , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The intricacies of black hole ringdown analysis are amplified by the absence of a complete set of orthogonal basis functions for quasinormal modes. Although damped sinusoids effectively fit the ringdown signals from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-09 Hengrui Zhu , Justin L. Ripley , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Frans Pretorius

We present a novel approach to the numerical computation of quasi-normal modes, based on the first-order (in radial derivative) formulation of the equations of motion and using a matrix version of the continued fraction method. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Hugo Roussille , David Langlois , Karim Noui

It is possible to infer the mass and spin of the remnant black hole from binary black hole mergers by comparing the ringdown gravitational wave signal to results from studies of perturbed Kerr spacetimes. Typically these studies are based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-13 Matthew Giesler , Maximiliano Isi , Mark Scheel , Saul Teukolsky

We construct compact and high accuracy Reduced Basis (RB) representations of single and multiple quasinormal modes (QNMs). The RB method determines a hierarchical and relatively small set of the most relevant waveforms. We find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sarah Caudill , Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Frank Herrmann , Manuel Tiglio

We calculate the quasinormal modes (QNM) frequencies of a test massless scalar field and an electromagnetic field around static black holes in $f(T)$ gravity. Focusing on quadratic $f(T)$ modifications, which is a good approximation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-31 Yaqi Zhao , Xin Ren , Amara Ilyas , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

The quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes plays a crucial role in the modelling of post-merger ringdown signals. However, the spectrum is extremely sensitive to small deformations of the system and describes the linear response only in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 Romeo Felice Rosato , Kyriakos Destounis , Paolo Pani

Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes are crucial in understanding the ringdown phase after a merger. While for Kerr black holes these modes have been known for a long time, their calculation has remained a challenge in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Fech Scen Khoo , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

Two numerical methods are used to calculate quasinormal modes (QNMs) of near-extremal black holes/strings in the generalized spherically/cylindrically symmetric background, the Asymptotic Iteration Method (AIM) and the Spectral Method. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-09 Taum Wuthicharn , Supakchai Ponglertsakul , Piyabut Burikham

This study delves into the existence of dark matter around supermassive black holes in galactic cores using a novel gravitational model. By analyzing gravitational waves emitted during the ringdown phase of black holes under different field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 Jie Liang , Dong Liu , Hao-Jie Lin , Zheng-Wen Long

Black-hole spectroscopy aims to infer properties of the remnant spacetime from the quasinormal-mode (QNM) spectrum of the gravitational-wave ringdown signal. In most implementations, however, this inference is performed with waveform models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Shitong Guo , Yan-Gang Miao

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

The detection of the least damped quasi-normal mode from the remnant of the gravitational wave event GW150914 realised the long sought possibility to observationally study the properties of quasi-stationary black hole spacetimes through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-03 Gregorio Carullo , Walter Del Pozzo , John Veitch

We study the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of a family of generalized black bounces interpolating between regular black holes and traversable wormhole solutions according to a single extra parameter $a$. Firstly, working with a generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-13 Albert Duran-Cabacés , Diego Rubiera-Garcia , Diego Sáez-Chillón Gómez

This paper explores the properties of the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a regular black hole(BH) characterized by a Minkowski core and sub-Planckian curvature. When focusing on a special case, this regular BH exhibits identical large-scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Dan Zhang , Huajie Gong , Guoyang Fu , Jian-Pin Wu , Qiyuan Pan

In this paper, the quasinormal modes of gravitational perturbation around some well-known regular black holes were evaluated by using the WKB approximation as well as the asymptotic iteration method. Through numerical calculation, we make a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-14 Chen Wu

Systematic errors in detector calibration can bias signal analyses and potentially lead to incorrect interpretations suggesting violations of general relativity. In this study, we investigate how calibration systematics affect black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Mallika R. Sinha , Ling Sun , Sizheng Ma

We investigate the quasi-normal modes (QNMs) under the gravitational field perturbations and the grey-body factors for a class of regular black holes with sub-Planckian curvature and Minkowski core. Specifically, we compute the QNMs with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Chen Tang , Yi Ling , Qing-Quan Jiang