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Black hole `spectroscopy', i.e. the identification of quasinormal mode frequencies via gravitational wave observations, is a powerful technique for testing the general relativistic nature of black holes. In theories of gravity beyond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Hector O. Silva , Kostas Glampedakis

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

In this paper, we consider a massless field, with spin j, in interaction with a Schwarzschild black hole in four dimensions, focusing mainly our study on the s-wave scattering. First, using a Fourier analysis, we show that one can have a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-07 Bernard Raffaelli

We apply the complex scaling method to black-hole perturbations in four-dimensional Schwarzschild--de~Sitter (dS) spacetimes. The method converts the outgoing-wave boundary-value problem into a non-Hermitian spectral problem and enables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Shoya Ogawa , Okuto Morikawa , Takuya Hirose

Quadratic quasinormal modes encode fundamental properties of black hole spacetimes. They are also one of the key ingredients of nonlinearities of General Relativity in the ringdown stage of binary black hole coalescence. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Neev Khera , Sizheng Ma , Huan Yang

We discuss a general method to study linear perturbations of slowly rotating black holes which is valid for any perturbation field, and particularly advantageous when the field equations are not separable. As an illustration of the method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Emanuele Berti , Akihiro Ishibashi

A new algorithm for computing the accurate values of quasinormal frequencies of extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes is presented. The numerically computed values are consistent with the values earlier obtained by Leaver and those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Hisashi Onozawa , Takashi Mishima , Takashi Okamura , Hideki Ishihara

We present a new method for the calculation of black hole perturbations induced by extended sources in which the solution of the nonlinear hydrodynamics equations is coupled to a perturbative method based on Regge-Wheeler/Zerilli and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Valeria Ferrari , Leonardo Gualtieri , Luciano Rezzolla

In this letter, a matrix method is employed to study the scalar quasinormal modes of Kerr as well as Kerr-Sen black holes. Discretization is applied to transfer the scalar perturbation equation into a matrix form eigenvalue problem, where…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian , Alan B. Pavan , Elcio Abdalla

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 Kerr nature of a compact-object-coalescence remnant can be unveiled by observing multiple quasi-normal modes (QNMs) in the post-merger signal. Current methods to achieve this goal rely on matching the data with a superposition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-31 Richard Brito , Alessandra Buonanno , Vivien Raymond

Although finding numerically the quasinormal modes of a nonrotating black hole is a well-studied question, the physics of the problem is often hidden behind complicated numerical procedures aimed at avoiding the direct solution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-26 Plamen Fiziev , Denitsa Staicova

Within the effective field theory approach to gravity, deviations from general relativity can be systematically described by higher-curvature operators. However, computing the resulting corrections to black hole quasinormal mode spectra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Tom van der Steen , Simon Maenaut , Stef J. B. Husken , Pedro G. S. Fernandes , Maxim D. Jockwer , Vitor Cardoso , Thomas Hertog , Tjonnie G. F. Li

One simplified black hole model constructed from a semiclassical analysis of loop quantum gravity (LQG) is called self-dual black hole. This black hole solution depends on a free dimensionless parameter P known as the polymeric parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-04 Victor Santos , R. V. Maluf , C. A. S. Almeida

The fundamental resonances of rapidly rotating Kerr black holes in the eikonal limit are derived analytically. We show that there exists a critical value, $\mu_c=\sqrt{{{15-\sqrt{193}}\over{2}}}$, for the dimensionless ratio $\mu\equiv m/l$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Shahar Hod

The merger of binary black holes produces a series of decaying oscillations, during which energy is radiated in gravitational waves. The characteristic signal in the ringdown phase can be described by complex oscillation frequencies called…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanqiang Liu , Benrong Mu , Jun Tao , Yuling Weng

We study the problem of plane monochromatic scalar waves impinging upon a Schwarzschild dirty black hole -- a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a thin spherical shell of matter -- using the complex angular momentum approach. We first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-15 Theo Torres , Mohamed Ould El Hadj , Shi-Qian Hu , Ruth Gregory

Quasinormal modes are characteristic signatures of compact objects. Here we consider rotating regular black holes, representing rotating generalizations of the Simpson and Visser metric. We present the spectrum of scalar quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-19 Fech Scen Khoo

As the fingerprints of black holes, quasinormal modes are closely associated with many properties of black holes. Especially, the ringdown phase of gravitational waveforms from the merger of compact binary components can be described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Sen Yang , Wen-Di Guo , Qin Tan , Li Zhao , Yu-Xiao Liu

Since the Bekenstein's proposal that a black hole has equally spaced area spectrum, the quasinormal modes as the characteristic modes of a black hole have been used in obtaining the horizon area spectrum of the black hole. However, the area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-25 Yongjoon Kwon , Soonkeon Nam