Ringdown Spectroscopy of Rotating Black Holes Pierced by Cosmic Strings

Abstract

Multiple gauge theories predict the presence of cosmic strings with different mass densities $G\mu /c^2$. We derive an equation governing the perturbations of a rotating black hole pierced by a straight, infinitely long cosmic string along its axis of rotation and calculate the quasinormal-mode frequencies of such a black hole. We then carry out parameter estimation on the first detected gravitational-wave event, GW150914, by hypothesizing that there is a string piercing through the remnant, yielding a constraint of $G\mu /c^2<3.8\times 10^{-3}$ at the 90\% confidence interval with a comparable Bayes factor with an analysis for a Kerr black hole without a string. In contrast to existing studies which focus on the mutual intersection of cosmic strings, or the cosmic string network, our work focuses on the intersection of a cosmic string with a black hole, with characteristics which can be identified in binary coalescence signals.

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