Quasinormal modes of black holes: From astrophysics to string theory

RA Konoplya, A Zhidenko - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Perturbations of black holes, initially considered in the context of possible observations of
astrophysical effects, have been studied for the past 10 years in string theory, brane-world …

Quasi-normal modes of stars and black holes

KD Kokkotas, BG Schmidt - Living Reviews in Relativity, 1999 - Springer
Perturbations of stars and black holes have been one of the main topics of relativistic
astrophysics for the last few decades. They are of particular importance today, because of …

Role of black hole quasinormal mode overtones for ringdown analysis

PJ Nee, SH Völkel, HP Pfeiffer - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Extracting quasinormal modes from compact binary mergers to perform black hole
spectroscopy is one of the fundamental pillars in current and future strong-gravity tests …

Quasinormal modes: the characteristicsound'of black holes and neutron stars

HP Nollert - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves emitted by perturbed black holes or relativistic stars are dominated
byquasinormal ringing', damped oscillations at single frequencies which are characteristic of …

Quasinormal behavior of the -dimensional Schwarzschild black hole and the higher order WKB approach

RA Konoplya - Physical Review D, 2003 - APS
We study characteristic (quasinormal) modes of a D-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole.
It is shown that the real parts of the complex quasinormal modes, representing the real …

Gravitational signatures of a non-commutative stable black hole

N Heidari, H Hassanabadi, AA Araújo Filho… - Physics of the Dark …, 2024 - Elsevier
This work investigates several key aspects of a non-commutative theory with mass
deformation. We calculate thermodynamic properties of the system and compare our results …

Generation and propagation of nonlinear quasinormal modes of a Schwarzschild black hole

M Lagos, L Hui - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
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 …

Testing general relativity with black hole quasi-normal modes

N Franchini, SH Völkel - Recent Progress on Gravity Tests: Challenges …, 2024 - Springer
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the exciting field of black hole quasi-
normal modes and its capabilities to test general relativity in the 21st century. After …

Quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild black holes: The determination of quasinormal frequencies with very large imaginary parts

HP Nollert - Physical Review D, 1993 - APS
We present an improvement of the continued fraction technique for the numerical calculation
of quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild black holes. On this basis it becomes possible to …

Physics of the Inverted Harmonic Oscillator: From the lowest Landau level to event horizons

V Subramanyan, SS Hegde, S Vishveshwara… - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we present the inverted harmonic oscillator (IHO) Hamiltonian as a paradigm to
understand the quantum mechanics of scattering and time-decay in a diverse set of physical …