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We study quasinormal modes and grey-body factors of a massive scalar field in the background of a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a spherically symmetric galactic dark matter halo. The background metric, recently obtained as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Zainab Malik

We study greybody factors, absorption cross sections and Hawking energy-emission rates for minimally coupled massless scalar, electromagnetic and massless Dirac test fields on the loop-quantum-gravity-inspired holonomy-corrected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 Bekir Can Lütfüoğlu , Javlon Rayimbaev , Bekzod Rahmatov , Saidmuhammad Ahmedov , Nuriddin Kurbonov

Although the proper oscillation frequencies of black holes (quasinormal modes) and the grey-body factors, which determine the scattering properties of black holes, represent two distinct spectral problems with different boundary conditions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

During the binary black hole coalescence, gravitational waves emitted at the ringdown stage can be well described by black hole perturbation theory, where the quasinormal modes (QNMs) become the important ingredient in modeling the pattern…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 Zhen-Hao Yang , Yun-He Lei , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Bin Wang

Scalar-tensor theories are promising dark energy models. A promising scalar-tensor theory, called Horndeski-like gravity, is coming from the application of the Horndeski gravity in string theory and cosmology that takes into account two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Dani de Boe , Fabiano F. Santos , Jackson Levi Said

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

In this paper, we study the propagations of external fields in Horndeski theory, including the scalar field, electromagnetic field and Dirac field. We extensively explore the quasinormal frequencies, time evolution, greybody factors and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Zhen-Hao Yang , Yun-He Lei , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Jian-Pin Wu

In this paper, we investigate quasinormal modes (QNMs) and greybody factors within the framework of Symmergent gravity, an emergent gravity model with an $R + R^2$ curvature sector. Building on our previous work on static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Beyhan Puliçe , Ali Övgün

We study axial gravitational perturbations of the Dymnikova regular black hole, an asymptotically flat spacetime in which the Schwarzschild singularity is replaced by a de Sitter core. Using the WKB method with Pad\'e approximants, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 Alexey Dubinsky

We generalize the Chern-Simons modified gravity to the metric-affine case and impose projective invariance by supplementing the Pontryagin density with homothetic curvature terms which do not spoil topologicity. The latter is then broken by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-20 Simon Boudet , Flavio Bombacigno , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Paulo J. Porfirio

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 work, we formulate the wave function to compute the effective potential of scalar and vector fields for the Kiselve black hole in the background of quantum fluctuation modified gravity. Using the 6th-order Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 W. Sajjad , M. Azam

The most general action for a scalar field coupled to gravity that leads to second order field equations for both the metric and the scalar --- Horndeski's theory --- is considered, with the extra assumption that the scalar satisfies shift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-13 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We address quasinormal modes of compact objects in several alternative theories of gravity. In particular, we focus on black holes and neutron stars with scalar hair. We consider black holes in dilaton-Einstein-Gau\ss -Bonnet theory, and in…

It is shown that the spectral amplitude of gravitational-wave (GW) ringdown of a Kerr black hole sourced by an extreme mass ratio merger can be modeled by the $\textit{greybody factor}$, which quantifies the scattering nature of the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Naritaka Oshita

We investigate the structure of nontrivial maximally symmetric vacua and compact-object solutions in shift-symmetric scalar-tensor theories. Focusing on Horndeski gravity, we derive consistency conditions directly from the field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-30 Athanasios Bakopoulos , Christos Charmousis , Nikos Chatzifotis , Theodoros Nakas

By implementing the concept of polytropic structures as a scalar field gas with a dark energy-like behavior, we obtain a static spherically symmetric black hole solution in the framework of general relativity. In this paper, we study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Y. Sekhmani , S. Zare , L. M. Nieto , H. Hassanabadi , K. Boshkayev

In a recent Letter we have shown that in shift-symmetric Horndeski theory the scalar field is forced to obtain a nontrivial configuration in black hole spacetimes, unless a linear coupling with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant is tuned away. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-12 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Shuang-Yong Zhou

The `no-hair' conjecture claims that for a spherically symmetric black hole, only the information regarding the mass and charge of the black hole is available to an external observer. However, there are numerous counterexamples to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-20 Avijit Chowdhury , Narayan Banerjee

In this paper, we formulate an analytical expression of greybody factor in the context of rotating Bardeen black hole which is valid in low energy and low angular momentum region. Primarily, we analyze the profile of effective potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-09 M. Sharif , Qanitah Ama-Tul-Mughani