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Resonances in the form of quasi-normal modes (QNMs) for open scattering systems can be generally identified in the far field through peaks of scattering spectra (\textit{e.g.} cross sections of scattering, extinction and absorption).…

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The existence of quasinormal modes (QNMs) for waves propagating on pure de Sitter space has been called into question in several works. We definitively prove the existence of quasinormal modes for massless and massive scalar fields in all…

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We investigate the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum of a Kerr-like black-bounce spacetime under massive scalar-field perturbations. Starting from the Kerr-like deformation of the Simpson--Visser black-bounce geometry, we derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Yi Yang , Dong Liu , Ali Övgün , Zheng-Wen Long , Zhaoyi Xu

We study quasinormal modes (QNMs) in 5D electrically charged Bardeen black holes spacetime by considering the scalar and electromagnetic field perturbations. The black holes spacetime is an exact solution of Einstein gravity coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Kimet Jusufi , Muhammed Amir , Md Sabir Ali , Sunil D. Maharaj

We present an unified approach for the study of idealized gravitational compact objects like wormholes and horizonless stars, here simulated by the presence of boundary conditions at a deeply inner wall. At classical level, namely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-07 L. Sebastiani , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

Gravitational-wave echoes in the post-merger signal of a binary coalescence are predicted in various scenarios, including near-horizon quantum structures, exotic states of matter in ultracompact stars, and certain deviations from general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-10 Elisa Maggio , Adriano Testa , Swetha Bhagwat , Paolo Pani

We propose two frequency-domain filters to analyze ringdown signals of binary black hole mergers. The first rational filter is constructed based on a set of (arbitrary) quasi-normal modes (QNMs) of the remnant black holes, whereas the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Sizheng Ma , Keefe Mitman , Ling Sun , Nils Deppe , François Hébert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Jordan Moxon , William Throwe , Nils L. Vu , Yanbei Chen

We present novel methods to numerically address the problem of characterizing the response of particle detectors in curved spacetimes. These methods allow for the integration of the Wightman function, at least in principle, in rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-18 Keith K. Ng , Lee Hodgkinson , Jorma Louko , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

We investigate scalar field perturbations of the rotating Teo wormhole. We also compute the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum using first order WKB approximation. After separation of variables, we obtain a Schroedinger type radial equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Ramesh Radhakrishnan , Gerald Cleaver , Delaram Mirfendereski , Eric Davis , Claudio Cremaschini

In light of the evidence for dynamical dark energy (DE) found from the most recent Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements, we perform a non-parametric, model-independent reconstruction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Maria Berti , Emilio Bellini , Camille Bonvin , Martin Kunz , Matteo Viel , Miguel Zumalacarregui

Quasi-normal mode (QNM) modeling is an invaluable tool for characterizing remnant black holes, studying strong gravity, and testing GR. Only recently have QNM studies begun to focus on multimode fitting to numerical relativity (NR) strain…

We present a new framework for characterizing quasinormal modes (QNMs) or resonant states for the wave equation on asymptotically flat spacetimes, applied to the setting of extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes. We show that QNMs can be…

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We consider a wave equation with a potential on the half-line as a model problem for wave propagation close to an extremal horizon, or the asymptotically flat end of a black hole spacetime. We propose a definition of quasinormal frequencies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Dejan Gajic , Claude Warnick

Motivated by a recently discovered connection between the greybody factors of black holes and the ringdown signal, we investigate the greybody factors of ultracompact horizonless objects, also elucidating their connection to echoes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Romeo Felice Rosato , Shauvik Biswas , Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

Measuring quasinormal modes (QNMs) during the ringdown phase of binary black hole coalescences provides key insights into merger dynamics and enables tests of the no-hair theorem. The QNM rational filter has recently been introduced as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Neil Lu , Sizheng Ma , Ornella J. Piccinni , Ling Sun , Eliot Finch

We study scalar waves on subextremal Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes in a compact slow-rotation regime and at a fixed overtone index. Working initially at a fixed cosmological constant $\Lambda>0$ and uniformly for $(M,a)$ in a compact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Ruiliang Li

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by resonant systems is determined by the excitation of quasinormal modes (QNMs), i.e., the eigenmodes of the system. This Review addresses three fundamental concepts in relation with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 C. Sauvan , T. Wu , R. Zarouf , E. A. Muljarov , P. Lalanne

We study electromagnetic perturbations and the associated quasinormal modes (QNMs) of parametrized static, spherically symmetric wormhole spacetimes, focusing on Damour-Solodukhin and braneworld geometries as well as their galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-08 Shauvik Biswas , Sayan Chakrabarti

In the analysis of a binary black hole coalescence, it is necessary to include gravitational self-interactions in order to describe the transition of the gravitational wave signal from the merger to the ringdown stage. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Macarena Lagos , Lam Hui

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…

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