Asymptotic quasinormal modes of scalar field in a gravity’s rainbow

In the framework of the gravity's rainbow, the asymptotic quasinormal modes of the modified Schwarzschild black holes undergoing a scalar perturbation are investigated. By using the monodromy method, we analytically calculated the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies, which depend on not only the mass parameter of the black hole, but also the particle's energy of the perturbation field. Meanwhile, the real parts of the asymptotic quasinormal modes can be expressed as T_H\ln 3, which is consistent with Hod's conjecture. In addition, for the quantum corrected black hole, the area spacing is independent of the particle's energy, even though the area itself depends on the particle's energy. And that, by relating the area spectrum to loop quantum gravity, the Barbero-Immirzi parameter is given and it remains the same as from the usual black hole.     

Quantization of black hole entropy from unstable circular null geodesics

The quasinormal mode frequencies can be understood from the massless particles trapped at the unstable circular null geodesics and slowly leaking out to infinity. Based on this viewpoint, in this paper, we semiclassically construct the entropy spectrum of the static and stationary black holes from the null geodesics. The result shows that the spacing of the entropy spectrum only depends on the property of the black hole in the eikonal limit. Moreover, for a black hole far from the extremal case, the spacing is found to be smaller than 2π for any dimension, which is very different from the result of the previous work by using the usual quasinormal mode frequencies.     

Entropy quantization of Reissner-Nordström de Sitter black hole via adiabatic covariant action

Based on the ideas of adiabatic invariant quantity, we attempt to quantize the entropy of a charged black hole in de Sitter spacetime in two different coordinates. The entropy spectrum is obtained by imposing Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule and the laws of black hole thermodynamics to the modified adiabatic covariant action of the charged black hole. The result shows that the spacing of entropy spectrum is equidistant, and the corresponding horizon area quantum is identical to Bekenstein’s result. Interestingly, in contrast to the quasinormal mode analysis, we note that there is no need to impose the small charge limit for the obtained entropy spectrum of the charged black hole. We also note that the modified adiabatic covariant action gives the same value for the black hole entropy spectrum in different coordinate frames. This is a physically desired result since the entropy spectrum should be invariant under the coordinate transformations.     

Spectroscopy of a Kerr–Newman–Kasuya Black Hole

Majhi and Vagenas’s work showed that the entropy spectrum of a spherically symmetric black hole can be obtained without quasinormal modes. In this paper, we extend this work to a Kerr–Newman–Kasuya black hole and discuss its spectra of entropy and area. We find that the spectra are equally spaced and are independent on the parameters of black hole.     

Area spectra of extreme Kerr and nearly extreme Kerr–Newmann black holes from quasinormal modes

The area spectra of extreme Kerr and nearly extreme Kerr–Newmann black holes are investigated from quasinormal modes via Maggiore’s physical interpretation of quasinormal modes. Using the first law of black hole thermodynamics and the action variable quantization, we arrive at consistent equally spaced area and entropy spectra. Results show that the spectra are irrelevant to the parameters of the black holes and the perturbation fields, which fully agree with Bekensteins original conjecture. In the calculations, we have defined the corresponding Hawking temperatures of the black holes following the suggestion of Mäkelä et al. to avoid the zero temperature and to guarantee the (nearly-) extreme black holes quantizable.     

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

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 experimental challenges that must be overcome to carry out black hole spectroscopy with present and future gravitational wave detectors. Among other topics, we discuss quasinormal mode excitation in binary mergers, astrophysical event rates, tests of black hole dynamics in modified theories of gravity, parameterized “post-Kerr” ringdown tests, exotic compact objects, and proposed data analysis methods to improve spectroscopic tests of Kerr dynamics by stacking multiple events.     

Quasinormal modes of a stationary axisymmetric EMDA black hole

The massless scalar quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a stationary axisymmetric Einstein--Maxwell dilaton--axion (EMDA) black hole are calculated numerically using the continued fraction method first proposed by Leaver. The fundamental quasinormal frequencies (slowly damped QNMs) are obtained and the peculiar behaviours of them are studied. It is shown that these frequencies depend on the dilaton parameter $D$, the rotational parameter $a$, the multiple moment $l$ and the azimuthal number $m$, and have the same values with other authors at the Schwarzschild and Kerr limit.     

Superradiance resonance cavity outside rapidly rotating black holes

We discuss the late-time behavior of a dynamically perturbed Kerr black hole. We present analytic results for near-extreme Kerr black holes that show that the large number of virtually undamped quasinormal modes that exist for nonzero values of the azimuthal eigenvalue m combine in such a way that the field oscillates with an amplitude that decays as 1/t at late times. This prediction is verified using numerical time evolutions of the Teukolsky equation. We argue that the observed behavior can be understood in terms of the presence of a "superradiance resonance cavity" immediately outside the black hole, and discuss whether it may be relevant for astrophysical black holes.     

Area Spectrum of Black Holes with Quantum Corrections via Periodicity

Using the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, Bekenstein once claimed that the horizon area of a black hole is quantized with uniform spacing $8\pi l_{p}^{2}$ . This spacing is shown to be corrected with inverse area terms from the perspective of periodicity, which indicates that the area spectrum in this case is no longer evenly spaced. Concretely we study the corrected area spectrum by equaling the motion period of an outgoing wave to the period of gravitational system in Kruskal coordinate with respect to the Euclidean time with consideration of quantum corrections to the semiclassical action. To check our result, we also study the corrected area spectrum in the framework of Generalized Uncertainty Principle. We find the area spectrum produced from the perspective of periodicity takes the same form as the one obtained by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle. As examples, area spectrum with quantum corrections of a Schwarzschild black hole and a Kerr black hole are studied. Our result shows that the formula for area spectrum with quantum corrections is universal though it is not independent of the black hole parameters. In addition, we also discuss the motion period of fermions and find that the area spectrum of a black hole is independent of particle statistics when the black hole is perturbed by an outgoing fermion.     

f(T) cosmology via Noether symmetry

Using the modified Kunstatter method, which employs as proper frequency the imaginary part instead of the real part of the quasinormal modes, the entropy spectrum and area spectrum of the modified Schwarzschild black holes in gravity??s rainbow are investigated. In the current study, two cases of modified dispersion relations concerning energy dependent and energy independent speed of light are considered. The entropy spectra with equal spacing are derived in these two cases. Furthermore, the obtained entropy spectra are independent of the energy of a test particle and are the same as the one of the usual Schwarzschild black hole. Also, the same area spectrum formulas are obtained in these different dispersion relations. However, due to the quantum effect of spacetime, the obtained area spectra are not equally spaced and are different from the one of the usual Schwarzschild black hole. Besides, in these two cases, the same black hole entropy formulas with logarithmic correction to the standard Bekenstein?CHawking area formula are obtained by the adiabatic invariant. The form of area spacing formulas and entropy formulas are independent of the particle??s energy, but the area spacing and entropy can have energy dependence through the area.     

Reissner-Nordstr?m de Sitte 黑洞的引力似正模

利用P?shl-Teller势近似方法,本文研究了径向和角向引力扰动引起的Reissner-Nordstr?m de Sitte 黑洞的似正模。研究表明,当宇宙常数增加时似正模虚部的强度变小,但它却随电荷、谐波数或轨道角动量增加而增加。当电荷固定而宇宙常数改变时,似正模的虚部与实部几乎成线性关系。研究还发现径向和角向引力扰动引起的似正模是一致的,这证实似正模只依赖于黑洞的参量而与初始扰动无关。     

Entropy spectrum of a Kerr anti-de Sitter black hole

The entropy spectrum of a spherically symmetric black hole was derived without the quasinormal modes in the work of Majhi and Vagenas. Extending this work to rotating black holes, we quantize the entropy and the horizon area of a Kerr anti-de Sitter black hole by two methods. The spectra of entropy and area are obtained via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule and the adiabatic invariance in the first way. By addressing the wave function of emitted (absorbed) particles, the entropy and the area are quantized in the second one. Both results show that the entropy and the area spectra are equally spaced.     

Possible direct method to determine the radius of a star from the spectrum of gravitational wave signals

We computed the spectrum of gravitational waves from a dust disk star of radius R inspiraling into a Kerr black hole of mass M and specific angular momentum a. We found that when R is much larger than the wave length of the quasinormal mode, the spectrum has several peaks and the separation of peaks Deltaomega is proportional to R-1 irrespective of M and a. This suggests that the radius of the star in coalescing binary black hole-star systems may be determined directly from the observed spectrum of gravitational waves. This also suggests that the spectrum of the radiation may give us important information in gravitational wave astronomy as in optical astronomy.     

引力彩虹时空中Kerr黑洞的熵谱和面积谱

利用黑洞的绝热不变性,研究了引力彩虹时空中Kerr黑洞的熵谱和面积谱.首先,在引力彩虹时空背景下,计算了Kerr黑洞的绝热不变作用量,并将其与玻尔-索末菲量子化条件相结合,给出了黑洞的熵谱.得到的熵谱没有引力彩虹时空本身具有的粒子能量依赖性,且是与经典Kerr黑洞中原始贝肯斯坦熵谱相同的等间距熵谱.然后,根据黑洞热力学第一定律和黑洞熵谱,给出了与原始贝肯斯坦谱不同的面积谱.该面积谱是非等间距的,而且有对黑洞面积的依赖性,但不依赖于探测粒子的能量.面积谱表明,随着黑洞面积的减少,面积间隔逐步变小;当黑洞达到普朗克尺度时,面积量子可降为零.这表示黑洞面积不再减少,黑洞出现辐射剩余.而在忽略色散关系的修正效应或在大黑洞极限下,面积谱的修正项可以忽略,引力彩虹Kerr黑洞面积谱可以回归到原始贝肯斯坦谱.此外,对引力彩虹时空Kerr黑洞的熵进行了讨论,得到了带有面积倒数修正项的黑洞熵,分析了黑洞熵的量子修正与面积谱量子修正的一致性.     

Quasinormal Modes in Double-Charge de Sitter Black Hole

The black hole, as a hot topic to be regarded as a normally research to become a strong evidence for its existence, made more and more people get involved in its research. To calculating the quasinormal modes for massless scalar field and Maxwell’s field in double-charge de Sitter black hole by using WKB approximation method, there is a fact that the speed of weakening electromagnetic perturbation will be reduced. The quasinormal modes in black hole mainly depends on angular quantum number l when its real part is in lower-frequency circumstances. At the same time, imaginary part mainly depends on the overtone number n. When the black hole carries the same electronic quantity, the more the electronic charges have, the smaller the real part and imaginary part of quasinormal modes will be.     

Spectroscopy of a Reissner–Nordström black hole via an action variable

With the help of the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule, the area spectrum of a charged, spherically symmetric spacetime is obtained by studying an adiabatic invariant action variable. The period of the Einstein–Maxwell system, which is related to the surface gravity of a given spacetime, is determined by Kruskal-like coordinates. It is shown that the area spectrum of the Reissner–Nordström black hole is evenly spaced and the spacing is the same as that of a Schwarzschild black hole, which indicates that the area spectrum of a black hole is independent of its parameters. In contrast to quasi-normal mode analysis, we do not impose the small charge limit, as the general area gap 8π is obtained.     

The Spectroscopy of a Plane Symmetric Black Hole

The discrete area spectrum was derived by the adiabatic invariance without quasinormal modes in recent work. In this paper, we extend this work to charged black holes and investigate the entropy spectrum of a plane symmetric black hole. The result shows that the minimal spacing of the entropy spectrum is 2π and that of the area spectrum is dependent on the theory frame of gravity.     

Fermionic quasinormal modes for two-dimensional Hořava–Lifshitz black holes

To obtain fermionic quasinormal modes, the Dirac equation for two types of black holes is investigated. It is shown that two different geometries lead to distinctive types of quasinormal modes, while the boundary conditions imposed on the solutions in both cases are identical. For the first type of black hole, the quasinormal modes have continuous spectrum with negative imaginary part that provides the stability of perturbations. For the second type of the black hole, the quasinormal modes have a discrete spectrum and are completely imaginary.     

Black hole spectroscopy via adiabatic invariance

During the last years, one had to combine the proposal about how quasinormal frequencies are related with black holes and the proposal about the adiabatic invariance of black holes in order to derive the quantized entropy spectrum and its minimum change for several black holes. In this Letter we exclusively utilize the statement that the black hole horizon area is an adiabatic invariant and derive an equally spaced entropy spectrum of a black hole with its quantum to be equal to the one given by Bekenstein. Interestingly, in our approach no concept of quasi-normal mode is needed.     

On the Stability of the Kerr Metric

The reduced (in the angular coordinate ϕ) wave equation and Klein–Gordon equation are considered on a Kerr background and in the framework of C ⁰-semigroup theory. Each equation is shown to have a well-posed initial value problem, i.e., to have a unique solution depending continuously on the data. Further, it is shown that the spectrum of the semigroup's generator coincides with the spectrum of an operator polynomial whose coefficients can be read off from the equation. In this way the problem of deciding stability is reduced to a spectral problem and a mathematical basis is provided for mode considerations. For the wave equation it is shown that the resolvent of the semigroup's generator and the corresponding Green's functions can be computed using spheroidal functions. It is to be expected that, analogous to the case of a Schwarzschild background, the quasinormal frequencies of the Kerr black hole appear as resonances, i.e., poles of the analytic continuation of this resolvent. Finally, stability of the solutions of the reduced Klein–Gordon equation is proven for large enough masses. Received: 28 August 2000 / Accepted: 4 April 2001