Testing general relativity with black hole quasi-normal modes

N Franchini, SH Völkel - Recent Progress on Gravity Tests: Challenges …, 2024 - Springer
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the exciting field of black hole quasi-
normal modes and its capabilities to test general relativity in the 21st century. After …

Black hole spectroscopy beyond Kerr: Agnostic and theory-based tests with next-generation interferometers

A Maselli, S Yi, L Pierini, V Vellucci, L Reali, L Gualtieri… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Black hole spectroscopy is a clean and powerful tool to test gravity in the strong-field regime
and to probe the nature of compact objects. Next-generation ground-based detectors, such …

Landscape of stellar-mass black-hole spectroscopy with third-generation gravitational-wave detectors

S Bhagwat, C Pacilio, P Pani, M Mapelli - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Gravitational-wave black-hole spectroscopy provides a unique opportunity to test the strong-
field regime of gravity and the nature of the final object formed in the aftermath of a merger …

Bounds on tidal charges from gravitational wave ringdown observations

AK Mishra, G Carullo, S Chakraborty - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Black hole solutions in the braneworld scenario are predicted to possess a tidal charge
parameter, leaving imprints in the quasinormal spectrum. We conduct an extensive …

postmerger: A flexible mapping of ringdown amplitudes for non-precessing binary black holes

C Pacilio, S Bhagwat, F Nobili, D Gerosa - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05276, 2024 - arxiv.org
The remnant black hole from a binary coalescence emits ringdown gravitational waves
characterized by quasi-normal modes, which depend solely on the remnant's mass and …

Flexible mapping of ringdown amplitudes for nonprecessing binary black holes

C Pacilio, S Bhagwat, F Nobili, D Gerosa - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The remnant black hole from a binary coalescence emits ringdown gravitational waves
characterized by quasinormal modes, which depend solely on the remnant's mass and spin …

A radial scalar product for Kerr quasinormal modes

L London - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17678, 2023 - arxiv.org
A scalar product for quasinormal mode solutions to Teukolsky's homogeneous radial
equation is presented. Evaluation of this scalar product can be performed either by direct …

Gravitational-Wave Tests of General Relativity with Ground-Based Detectors and Pulsar-Timing Arrays

N Yunes, X Siemens, K Yagi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05240, 2024 - arxiv.org
This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational
waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments …