Jul 15 – 19, 2024
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Quasinormal modes and non-linear behaviour

Jul 16, 2024, 2:45 PM
15m
Federation Hall (University of Waterloo)

Federation Hall

University of Waterloo

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Speaker

Taillte May (Perimeter Institute)

Description

Gravitational waves from black hole binary mergers can tell us a lot about the physics of the system. At the late part of the graviational wave signal, GR predicts the presence of characteristic frequencies (called quasinormal modes) in the signal. Measuring multiple quasinormal modes is a strong consistency test for GR.

Here we probe the regime where a signal can be described entirely by quasinormal modes. We consider a higher order effect, where the remnant black hole is absorbing some radiation and so has a changing mass and spin. We test the contribution of this effect to the signal in a physically relevant scenario. We find evidence that this effect causes other mode excitations as well as a changing frequency contribution.

Keywords Testing GR, quasinormal modes, ringdown, numerics, black hole perturbation theory

Primary authors

Justin Ripley Sizheng Ma (Perimeter Institute) Taillte May (Perimeter Institute) William East (Perimeter Institute)

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