Black Hole Ringdown: The Importance of Overtones

It is possible to infer the mass and spin of the remnant black hole from binary black hole mergers by comparing the ringdown gravitational wave signal to results from studies of perturbed Kerr spacetimes. Typically, these studies are based on the fundamental quasinormal mode of the dominant ℓ=m=2 ha...

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Main Authors: Matthew Giesler, Maximiliano Isi, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2019-12-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.041060