A multimode quasi-normal spectrum from a perturbed black hole
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| author | Capano, Collin D. Cabero, Miriam Westerweck, Julian Abedi, Jahed Kastha, Shilpa Nitz, Alexander H. Wang, Yi-Fan Nielsen, Alex B. Krishnan, Badri |
| author_facet | Capano, Collin D. Cabero, Miriam Westerweck, Julian Abedi, Jahed Kastha, Shilpa Nitz, Alexander H. Wang, Yi-Fan Nielsen, Alex B. Krishnan, Badri |
| contents | When two black holes merge, the late stage of gravitational wave emission is a superposition of exponentially damped sinusoids. According to the black hole no-hair theorem, this ringdown spectrum depends only on the mass and angular momentum of the final black hole. An observation of more than one ringdown mode can test this fundamental prediction of general relativity. Here we provide strong observational evidence for a multimode black hole ringdown spectrum using the gravitational wave event GW190521, with a maximum Bayes factor of $56\pm1$ ($1σ$ uncertainty) preferring two fundamental modes over one. The dominant mode is the $\ell=m=2$ harmonic, and the sub-dominant mode corresponds to the $\ell=m=3$ harmonic. The amplitude of this mode relative to the dominant harmonic is estimated to be $A_{330}/A_{220} = 0.2^{+0.2}_{-0.1}$. We estimate the redshifted mass and dimensionless spin of the final black hole as $330_{-40}^{+30}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ and $0.86_{-0.11}^{+0.06}$, respectively. We find that the final black hole is consistent with the no hair theorem and constrain the fractional deviation from general relativity of the sub-dominant mode's frequency to be $-0.01^{+0.08}_{-0.09}$. |
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| spellingShingle | A multimode quasi-normal spectrum from a perturbed black hole Capano, Collin D. Cabero, Miriam Westerweck, Julian Abedi, Jahed Kastha, Shilpa Nitz, Alexander H. Wang, Yi-Fan Nielsen, Alex B. Krishnan, Badri General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena When two black holes merge, the late stage of gravitational wave emission is a superposition of exponentially damped sinusoids. According to the black hole no-hair theorem, this ringdown spectrum depends only on the mass and angular momentum of the final black hole. An observation of more than one ringdown mode can test this fundamental prediction of general relativity. Here we provide strong observational evidence for a multimode black hole ringdown spectrum using the gravitational wave event GW190521, with a maximum Bayes factor of $56\pm1$ ($1σ$ uncertainty) preferring two fundamental modes over one. The dominant mode is the $\ell=m=2$ harmonic, and the sub-dominant mode corresponds to the $\ell=m=3$ harmonic. The amplitude of this mode relative to the dominant harmonic is estimated to be $A_{330}/A_{220} = 0.2^{+0.2}_{-0.1}$. We estimate the redshifted mass and dimensionless spin of the final black hole as $330_{-40}^{+30}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ and $0.86_{-0.11}^{+0.06}$, respectively. We find that the final black hole is consistent with the no hair theorem and constrain the fractional deviation from general relativity of the sub-dominant mode's frequency to be $-0.01^{+0.08}_{-0.09}$. |
| title | A multimode quasi-normal spectrum from a perturbed black hole |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05238 |