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The purpose of this paper is to study quasinormal modes (QNM) of the Bardeen black hole due to scalar perturbations. We have done a thorough analysis of the QNM frequencies by varying the charge $q$, mass $M$ and the spherical harmonic…

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We compute scalar quasinormal mode (QNM) frequencies in rotating black hole solutions of the most general class of higher-derivative gravity theories, to quartic order in the curvature, that reduce to General Relativity for weak fields and…

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Quasinormal modes of rapidly rotating black holes were recently computed in a generic effective-field-theory extension of general relativity with higher-derivative corrections. We exploit this breakthrough to perform the most complete…

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A major aim of gravitational wave astronomy is to test observationally the Kerr nature of black holes. The strongest such test, with minimal additional assumptions, is provided by observations of multiple ringdown modes, also known as black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Collin D. Capano , Jahed Abedi , Shilpa Kastha , Alexander H. Nitz , Julian Westerweck , Yi-Fan Wang , Miriam Cabero , Alex B. Nielsen , Badri Krishnan

Perturbed Kerr black holes emit gravitational radiation, which (for the practical purposes of gravitational-wave astronomy) consists of a superposition of damped sinusoids termed quasi-normal modes. The frequencies and time-constants of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ioannis Kamaretsos , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes can exhibit avoided crossings (ACs), in which specific QNM frequencies approach each other while their amplitudes are enhanced and acquire nearly opposite phases, leading to characteristic…

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We investigate the possibility of electromagnetic fields leaving imprints on gravitational wave (GW) signals from Neutron Star-Black hole (NSBH) mergers, specifically in the context of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Using black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fawzi Aly , Mahmoud A. Mansour , Dejan Stojkovic

Studies of quasinormal modes (QNMs) of black holes have a long and well established history. Predominantly, much research in this area has customarily focused on the equations given by Regge, Wheeler and Zerilli. In this work we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-05 Bishop Mongwane , Sipho Nkele , Didam G. A. Duniya , Nigel T. Bishop

We present a package for Mathematica that facilitates the numerical computation of the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum of a black hole/black brane. Requiring as input only the QNM equation(s), the application of a single Mathematica…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-20 Aron Jansen

It was recently found that the optical field fluctuations in self-defocusing media can be described by sound waves propagating in a two-dimensional photon-fluid. This photon-fluid is controlled by the driving beam and serves as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-24 Hang Liu , Hong Guo , Ru Ling

Quasinormal modes are eigenmodes of dissipative systems. Perturbations of classical gravitational backgrounds involving black holes or branes naturally lead to quasinormal modes. The analysis and classification of the quasinormal spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Andrei O. Starinets

We investigate quasinormal modes (QNMs) and Hawking radiation of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole sur-rounded by quintessence. The Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method is used to evaluate the QNMs and the rate of radiation. The results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-11 Mahamat Saleh , Bouetou Bouetou Thomas , Kofane Timoleon Crepin

The gravitational waves emitted by a perturbed black hole ringing down are well described by damped sinusoids, whose frequencies are those of quasinormal modes. Typically, first-order black hole perturbation theory is used to calculate…

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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 Hector O. Silva , Abhirup Ghosh , Alessandra Buonanno

We calculate the quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections. The model is based on quantum corrections inspired by loop quantum gravity. It is covariant and results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Douglas M. Gingrich

Black hole spectroscopy is a clean and powerful tool to test gravity in the strong-field regime and to probe the nature of compact objects. Next-generation ground-based detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-18 Andrea Maselli , Sophia Yi , Lorenzo Pierini , Vania Vellucci , Luca Reali , Leonardo Gualtieri , Emanuele Berti

We investigate the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum for scalar perturbations of static, magnetically charged black holes in the presence of a quintessence field. The background geometry is obtained from the Einstein-Power-Maxwell action with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-12 Ali Hasnain

We compute the quasi-normal mode (QNM) frequencies of slowly rotating black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity, including corrections up to second order in the black hole's dimensionless spin parameter $\chi = J/M^2$ and second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-09 Tharaka Alapati , S. Shankaranarayanan

The ringdown (RD) phase of gravitational waves is of prime interest for testing general relativity (GR). The modelling of the linear quasi-normal modes (QNMs) within the Kerr spectrum -- or with agnostic parameterized deviations to that GR…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-08 Yi Qiu , Xisco Jiménez Forteza , Pierre Mourier

It is believed that in the near future, gravitational wave detections will become a promising tool not only to test gravity theories, but also to probe extremely curved spacetime regions in our universe, such as the surroundings of black…

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