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most citedBlack Hole Photon Rings Beyond General Relativity

38 citations · 93 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

gr-qc2026

Dissection of a merger-ringdown waveform in the small-mass-ratio limit

Patrick Bourg, Lorenzo Küchler, Benjamin Leather +6

Work over the past two decades has unveiled the rich phenomenology of black hole binary mergers and subsequent ringdowns, involving a tapestry of quasinormal modes (QNMs), nonlinea…

gr-qc2024★ 27 cited

Self-force framework for transition-to-plunge waveforms

Lorenzo Küchler, Geoffrey Compère, Leanne Durkan +1

Compact binaries with asymmetric mass ratios are key expected sources for next-generation gravitational wave detectors. Gravitational self-force theory has been successful in produ…

gr-qc2023★ 38 cited

Black Hole Photon Rings Beyond General Relativity

Seppe Staelens, Daniel R. Mayerson, Fabio Bacchini +2

We investigate whether photon ring observations in black hole imaging are able to distinguish between the Kerr black hole in general relativity and alternative black holes that dev…

gr-qc2021★ 2 cited

Asymptotically matched quasi-circular inspiral and transition-to-plunge in the small mass ratio expansion

Geoffrey Compère, Lorenzo Küchler

In the small mass ratio expansion and on the equatorial plane, the two-body problem for point particles in general relativity admits a quasi-circular inspiral motion followed by a…

gr-qc2021★ 26 cited

Self-consistent adiabatic inspiral and transition motion

Geoffrey Compère, Lorenzo Küchler

The transition motion of a point particle around the last stable orbit of Kerr is described at leading order in the transition-timescale expansion. Taking systematically into accou…