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20242026
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6 papers

gr-qc2026

Exact Cancellation of Horizon Modes in Kerr Ringdown

Kei-ichiro Kubota, Yusuke Manita, Hayato Motohashi +1

Ringdown gravitational waves probe black hole spacetimes via quasinormal modes (QNMs). Recent studies have reported oscillatory features in QNM-filtered waveforms, and have led to…

gr-qc2026

Ringdown analysis of GW250114 with orthonormal modes

Motoki Suzuki, Kei-ichiro Kubota, Soichiro Morisaki +2

GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event to date observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. Owing to its high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), previous analyses based on quasi…

gr-qc2025

Inspiral-Transition-Plunge Gravitational Waveforms Beyond Kerr: A Kerr-Newman Case Study

Daiki Watarai, Kent Yagi, Shammi Tahura

Binary black hole mergers with asymmetric component masses are key targets for both third-generation ground-based and future space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, offering…

gr-qc2025

Analyzing black-hole ringdowns with orthonormal modes

Soichiro Morisaki, Hayato Motohashi, Motoki Suzuki +1

The ringdown signal following a black hole (BH) merger can be modeled as a superposition of BH quasinormal modes (QNMs), offering a clean setup for testing gravitational theories.…

gr-qc2024

Ringdown of a postinnermost stable circular orbit of a rapidly spinning black hole: Mass ratio dependence of higher harmonic quasinormal mode excitation

Daiki Watarai

In a binary merger with a small mass ratio, as the secondary body approaches the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of the primary black hole, the motion transitions from the a…

gr-qc2024

Slowly decaying ringdown of a rapidly spinning black hole II: Inferring the masses and spins of supermassive black holes with LISA

Daiki Watarai, Naritaka Oshita, Daichi Tsuna

Electromagnetic observations reveal that almost all galaxies have supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers, but their properties, especially their spins, are not fully und…