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Consider a spherically symmetric spacetime generated by a self-gravitating massless scalar field $\phi$ and let $\psi$ be a test (nonspherical) massless scalar field propagating on this dynamical background. Gundlach, Price, and Pullin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-11 Piotr Bizoń , Andrzej Rostworowski

We investigate the behavior of a dynamical scalar field on a fixed Kerr background in Kerr-Schild coordinates using a 3+1 dimensional spectral evolution code, and we measure the power-law tail decay that occurs at late times. We compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark A. Scheel , Adrienne L. Erickcek , Lior M. Burko , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Saul A. Teukolsky

Outside a black hole, perturbation fields die off in time as $1/t^n$. For spherical holes $n=2\ell+3$ where $\ell$ is the multipole index. In the nonspherical Kerr spacetime there is no coordinate-independent meaning of "multipole," and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Reinaldo J. Gleiser , Richard H. Price , Jorge Pullin

Nonlinear effects play a fundamental role in the late-time ringdown of black holes, with direct implications for gravitational-wave observations. For massive fields, these dynamics become richer, yet their nonlinear signatures remain poorly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Caiying Shao , Zhen-Tao He , Jiageng Jiao , Jingqi Lai , Jun-Xi Shi , Yu Tian , Dandan Yuan , Hongbao Zhang

We study the late-time relaxation of a perturbed Schwarzschild black hole, driven by a source term representing an infalling particle in generic orbits. We consider quasi-circular and eccentric binaries, dynamical captures and radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-04 Marina De Amicis , Simone Albanesi , Gregorio Carullo

Amazingly, recent studies indicate that nonlinear effects are of great significance for modelling black hole ringdown. Transient electromagnetic events in the astrophysical environment are typically high energetic, potentially responsible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-07 Zhen-Tao He , Jia Du , Jiageng Jiao , Caiying Shao , Junxi Shi , Yu Tian , Hongbao Zhang

We study numerically the fully nonlinear gravitational collapse of a self-gravitating, minimally-coupled, massless scalar field in spherical symmetry. Our numerical code is based on double-null coordinates and on free evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Lior M. Burko , Amos Ori

This is the second part of a series of papers deriving the precise, late-time behaviour and (in)stability properties of charged scalar fields on near-extremal Reissner--Nordstr\"om spacetimes via energy estimates. In this paper, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Dejan Gajic

We consider the decay rate for scalar fields in Kerr spacetime. We consider pure initial (azimuthal) multipoles $\ell'$ with respect to the class which includes Boyer-Lindquist coordinates, and focus attention on the decay rate of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-15 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna

In this brief note, we revisit the study of the leading order late time decay tails of massless scalar perturbations outside an extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. Previous authors have analysed this problem in the time domain; we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Srijit Bhattacharjee , Bidisha Chakrabarty , David D. K. Chow , Partha Paul , Amitabh Virmani

We study the late-time tails appearing in the propagation of massless fields (scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational) in the vicinities of a D-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole. We find that at late times the fields always exhibit a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Vitor Cardoso , Shijun Yoshida , Oscar J. C. Dias , Jose' P. S. Lemos

We study the late-time behaviour of a dynamically perturbed rapidly rotating black hole. Considering an extreme Kerr black hole, we show that the large number of virtually undamped quasinormal modes (that exist for nonzero values of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Glampedakis , N. Andersson

We study the nonlinear gravitational collapse of a charged massless scalar-field. We confirm the existence of oscillatory inverse power-law tails along future timelike infinity, future null infinity and along the future outer-horizon. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Shahar Hod , Tsvi Piran

This note discusses the late-time decay of perturbations outside extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. We consider individual spherical-harmonic modes $l$ of massless scalar field. The initial data are assumed to be of compact support,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-08 Amos Ori

We investigate the power-law tails in the evolution of a charged massless scalar field around a fixed background of a dilaton black hole. Using both analytical and numerical methods we find the inverse power-law relaxation of charged fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Rafal Moderski , Marek Rogatko

We investigate both the intermediate late-time tail and the asymptotic tail behavior of the charged massive Dirac fields in the background of the Kerr-Newman black hole. We find that the intermediate late-time behavior of charged massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xi He , Jiliang Jing

We prove the existence of instabilities for the geometric linear wave equation on extremal Kerr spacetime backgrounds, which describe stationary black holes rotating at their maximally allowed angular velocity. These instabilities can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-18 Dejan Gajic

We investigate the late-time tail behavior in gravitational waves from merging eccentric binary black holes (BBH) using black hole perturbation theory. For simplicity, we focus only on the dominant quadrupolar mode of the radiation. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Tousif Islam , Guglielmo Faggioli , Gaurav Khanna , Scott E. Field , Maarten van de Meent , Alessandra Buonanno

The asymptotically decaying tails that characterize the late-time dynamics of collapsing self-gravitating charged massless scalar fields were studied three decades ago by Hod and Piran (HP). In particular, it was shown, both analytically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Shahar Hod

Quasinormal modes and power-law late-time decay tails of a charged scalar field on a charged black hole have been considered in the literature, and here we use the hyperboloidal formalism to present an independent comparison to prior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-21 João D. Álvares , Alex Vañó-Viñuales