Ringing out General Relativity: Quasi-normal mode frequencies for black holes of any spin in modified gravity
arXiv:2405.12280 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.181401
Abstract
After black holes collide, the remnant settles to a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves. Once non-linearities subside, these ringdown waves are dominated by exponentially-damped sinusoids, or quasinormal modes. We develop a general method using perturbative spectral expansions to calculate the quasinormal-mode frequencies and damping times in a wide class of modified gravity theories for black holes with any subextremal spin. We apply this method to scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity to show its accuracy, thus enabling robust ringdown tests with gravitational wave data.
5 pages, 2 figures; matched the version published by Phys. Rev. Lett
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