Source-Driven Tails in Kerr Spacetime: Nonlinear effects in Late-Time Behavior
Abstract
We present the long-duration time-domain simulations of scalar-field tails in Kerr spacetimes driven by \emph{outgoing} multipolar sources. Extending the recent work in the literature from Schwarzschild to rotating black holes, we evolve sources with on backgrounds with dimensionless spin and extract the late-time decay rates of measured modes for a nonlinearity-inspired outgoing source with a fall-off. In all cases we find the inverse power-law index to be larger than the source-free Price law values by one unit, i.e. . We also include a power-law index value computation for a similar source-driven gravitational wave case and confirm closely related results in the recent literature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.11484,
title = {Source-Driven Tails in Kerr Spacetime: Nonlinear effects in Late-Time Behavior},
author = {Som Dev Bishoyi and Subir Sabharwal and Gaurav Khanna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.11484},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, comments and feedback are welcome