Testing the nature of dark compact objects: a status report

V Cardoso, P Pani - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2019 - Springer
Very compact objects probe extreme gravitational fields and may be the key to understand
outstanding puzzles in fundamental physics. These include the nature of dark matter, the …

Extreme gravity tests with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences:(II) ringdown

E Berti, K Yagi, H Yang, N Yunes - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2018 - Springer
The LIGO/Virgo detections of binary black hole mergers marked a watershed moment in
astronomy, ushering in the era of precision tests of Kerr dynamics. We review theoretical and …

Analysis of ringdown overtones in GW150914

R Cotesta, G Carullo, E Berti, V Cardoso - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We analyze GW150914 postmerger data to understand if ringdown overtone detection
claims are robust. We find no evidence in favor of an overtone in the data after the waveform …

[HTML][HTML] Shadow, lensing, quasinormal modes, greybody bounds and neutrino propagation by dyonic ModMax black holes

RC Pantig, L Mastrototaro, G Lambiase… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Motivated by recent work on the Modified Maxwell (ModMax) black holes [Phys Lett B
10.1016/j. physletb. 2020.136011], which are invariant in duality rotations and conformal …

Agnostic black hole spectroscopy: Quasinormal mode content of numerical relativity waveforms and limits of validity of linear perturbation theory

V Baibhav, MHY Cheung, E Berti, V Cardoso, G Carullo… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Black hole spectroscopy is the program to measure the complex gravitational wave
frequencies of merger remnants, and to quantify their agreement with the characteristic …

Quasinormal modes of black holes: From astrophysics to string theory

RA Konoplya, A Zhidenko - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Perturbations of black holes, initially considered in the context of possible observations of
astrophysical effects, have been studied for the past 10 years in string theory, brane-world …

Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes

E Berti, V Cardoso, AO Starinets - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasinormal modes are eigenmodes of dissipative systems. Perturbations of classical
gravitational backgrounds involving black holes or branes naturally lead to quasinormal …

Rotating black holes: locally nonrotating frames, energy extraction, and scalar synchrotron radiation

JM Bardeen, WH Press… - … Journal, Vol. 178, pp …, 1972 - adsabs.harvard.edu
This paper outlines and applies a technique for analyzing physical processes around
rotating black holes. The technique is based on the orthonormal frames of" locally …

Validating the effective-one-body model of spinning, precessing binary black holes against numerical relativity

S Babak, A Taracchini, A Buonanno - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
In Abbott et al.[Phys. Rev. X 6, 041014 (2016) PRXHAE 2160-3308 10.1103/PhysRevX.
6.041014], the properties of the first gravitational wave detected by LIGO, GW150914, were …

Quasi-normal modes of stars and black holes

KD Kokkotas, BG Schmidt - Living Reviews in Relativity, 1999 - Springer
Perturbations of stars and black holes have been one of the main topics of relativistic
astrophysics for the last few decades. They are of particular importance today, because of …