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Quasinormal modes and their excitation beyond general relativity
Hector O. Silva, Giovanni Tambalo, Kostas Glampedakis +2
The response of black holes to small perturbations is known to be partially described by a superposition of quasinormal modes. Despite their importance to enable strong-field tests…
Gravitational radiation from a particle plunging into a Schwarzschild black hole: frequency-domain and semirelativistic analyses
Hector O. Silva, Giovanni Tambalo, Kostas Glampedakis +1
We revisit the classic problem of gravitational wave emission by a test particle plunging into a Schwarzschild black hole both in the frequency-domain Regge-Wheeler-Zerilli formali…
Renormalizing Love: tidal effects at the third post-Newtonian order
Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Hector O. Silva +2
We present the conservative effective two-body Hamiltonian at the third order in the post-Newtonian expansion with gravitoelectric quadrupolar dynamical tidal-interactions. Our der…
Gravitoelectric dynamical tides at second post-Newtonian order
Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Hector O. Silva +2
We present a gravitoelectric quadrupolar dynamical tidal-interaction Hamiltonian for a compact binary system, that is valid to second order in the post-Newtonian expansion. Our der…
Tests of general relativity in the nonlinear regime: a parametrized plunge-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model
Elisa Maggio, Hector O. Silva, Alessandra Buonanno +1
The plunge-merger stage of the binary-black hole coalescence, when the bodies' velocities reach a large fraction of the speed of light and the gravitational-wave luminosity peaks,…
Spontaneous scalarization
Daniela D. Doneva, Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu, Hector O. Silva +2
Scalarization is a mechanism that endows strongly self-gravitating bodies, such as neutron stars and black holes, with a scalar-field configuration. It resembles a phase transition…