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most citedBlack holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

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gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Quadrupole perturbations of slowly spinning Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes

Bahareh Azad, Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Fech Scen Khoo +2

We study the axial and polar perturbations of slowly rotating Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes in General Relativity, applying a perturbative double expansion. In particular, we derive th…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment

Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo +65

The "ringdown" radiation emitted by oscillating black holes has great scientific potential. By carefully predicting the frequencies and amplitudes of black hole quasinormal modes a…

gr-qc2022★ 2 cited

-modes of neutron stars in a massless scalar-tensor theory

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Luis Manuel González-Romero, Fech Scen Khoo +2

Scalar-tensor theories allow for a rich spectrum of quasinormal modes of neutron stars. The presence of the scalar field allows for polar monopole and dipole radiation, as well as…

gr-qc2022★ 6 cited

Probing the Ellis-Bronnikov wormhole geometry with a scalar field: clouds, waves and Q-balls

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Marina-Aura Dariescu, Ciprian Dariescu +2

The Ellis-Bronnikov solution provides a simple toy model for the study of various aspects of wormhole physics. In this work we solve the Klein-Gordon equation in this background an…

gr-qc2022★ 8 cited

Compact Objects in Alternative Gravities

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Burkhard Kleihaus, Jutta Kunz

We address neutron stars and black holes in alternative gravities, after recalling their basic properties in General Relativity. Among the plethora of interesting alternative gravi…

gr-qc2020★ 162 cited

Traversable wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Christian Knoll, Eugen Radu

We construct a specific example of a class of traversable wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell theory in four spacetime dimensions, without needing any form of exotic matter. Restri…

hep-th2020★ 11 cited

Thermodynamically stable asymptotically flat hairy black holes with a dilaton potential: the general case

Dumitru Astefanesei, Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Francisco Gómez +1

We extend the analysis, initiated in arXiv:1901.01269, of the thermodynamic stability of four-dimensional asymptotically flat hairy black holes by considering a general class of ex…

gr-qc2018★ 42 cited

Quasinormal modes of compact objects in alternative theories of gravity

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Zahra Altaha Motahar, Daniela D. Doneva +5

We address quasinormal modes of compact objects in several alternative theories of gravity. In particular, we focus on black holes and neutron stars with scalar hair. We consider b…

gr-qc2018★ 742 cited

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

Leor Barack, Vitor Cardoso, Samaya Nissanke +203

The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-…

gr-qc2017★ 17 cited

Squashed, magnetized black holes in minimal gauged supergravity

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Jutta Kunz, Francisco Navarro-Lérida +1

We construct a new class of black hole solutions in five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory with a negative cosmological constant. These configurations are cohomogene…

gr-qc2017

Radially Excited AdS Black Holes in Einstein--Maxwell--Chern--Simons Theory

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo

In the large coupling regime of the 5-dimensional Einstein--Maxwell--Chern--Simons theory, charged and rotating cohomogeneity-1 black holes form sequences of extremal and non-extre…

gr-qc2016★ 11 cited

Static Einstein-Maxwell Magnetic Solitons and Black Holes in an Odd Dimensional AdS Spacetime

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Jutta Kunz, Francisco Navarro-Lérida +1

We construct a new class of Einstein-Maxwell static solutions with a magnetic field in -dimensions (with an odd number), approaching at infinity a globally Anti-de Sit…

gr-qc2016★ 24 cited

Black holes in Einstein-Gauß-Bonnet-dilaton theory

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Vitor Cardoso, Valeria Ferrari +9

Generalizations of the Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes are discussed in an astrophysically viable generalized theory of gravity, which includes higher curvature corrections in t…

gr-qc2015★ 14 cited

Radially excited rotating black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Jutta Kunz, Francisco Navarro-Lérida +1

Rotating black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory possess remarkable features, when the Chern-Simons coupling constant reaches a critical value. Representing single asym…

gr-qc2015

Extremal rotating black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory: radially excited solutions and non-uniqueness

Jose Luis Blazquez-Salcedo

We study 5-dimensional black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory with free Chern-Simons coupling parameter. We consider an event horizon with spherical topology, and both…

gr-qc2013★ 19 cited

Properties of rotating Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton black holes in odd dimensions

Jose Luis Blazquez-Salcedo, Jutta Kunz, Francisco Navarro-Lerida

We investigate rotating Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMd) black holes in odd dimensions. Focusing on black holes with equal-magnitude angular momenta, we determine the domain of exist…

gr-qc2013★ 6 cited

Angular momentum-area proportionality of extremal charged black holes in odd dimensions

Jose Luis Blazquez-Salcedo, Jutta Kunz, Francisco Navarro-Lerida

Extremal rotating black holes in Einstein-Maxwell theory feature two branches. On the branch emerging from the Myers-Perry solutions their angular momentum is proportional to their…

gr-qc2013★ 14 cited

Sequences of extremal radially excited rotating black holes

Jose Luis Blazquez-Salcedo, Jutta Kunz, Francisco Navarro-Lerida +1

In Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory the extremal Reissner-Nordström solution is no longer the single extremal solution with vanishing angular momentum, when the Chern-Simons co…

gr-qc2013

Axial Quasi-normal modes of Neutron Stars with Exotic Matter

J. L. Blázquez-Salcedo, L. M. González-Romero, F. Navarro-Lérida

We investigate the axial w quasi-normal modes of neutron stars for 18 realistic equations of state in order to study the influence of hyperons and quarks on the modes. The study ha…

gr-qc2013★ 1 cited

Core-crust transition pressure for relativistic slowly rotating neutron stars

L. M. González-Romero, J. L. Blázquez-Salcedo

We study the influence of core-\textit{crust} transition pressure changes on the general dynamical properties of neutron star configurations. First we study the matching conditions…

gr-qc2013★ 34 cited

Exotic matter influence on the polar quasi-normal modes of neutron stars with equations of state satisfying the constraint

J. L. Blázquez-Salcedo, L. M. González-Romero, F. Navarro-Lérida

In this paper we analyze the quasi-normal mode spectrum of realistic neutron stars by studying the polar modes. In particular we study the spatial wI mode, the f mode, and the fund…

hep-th2013★ 2 cited

Non-Abelian Chern-Simons-Higgs vortices with a quartic potential

J. L. Blazquez-Salcedo, L. M. Gonzalez-Romero, F. Navarro-Lerida +1

We have constructed numerically non-Abelian vortices in an SU(2) Chern-Simons-Higgs theory with a quartic Higgs potential. We have analyzed these solutions in detail by means of im…

gr-qc2012★ 35 cited

Phenomenological Relations for Axial Quasi-normal Modes of Neutron Stars with Realistic Equations of State

J. L. Blázquez-Salcedo, L. M. González-Romero, F. Navarro-Lérida

Here we investigate the axial w quasi-normal modes of neutron stars for several equations of state. In particular, we study the influence of the presence of hyperons in the core of…

gr-qc2011★ 1 cited

New model of relativistic slowly rotating neutron stars with surface layer \textit{crust}: application to giant \textit{glitches} of Vela Pulsar

L. M. González-Romero, J. L. Blázquez-Salcedo

Introducing a surface layer of matter on the edge of a neutron star in slow rigid rotation, we analyze, from an intrinsic point of view, the junction conditions that must be satisf…