Ringdown signatures in the Ernst-Wild geometry: modeling Kerr black holes immersed in a magnetic field

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Taylor, Kate J., Ritz, Adam
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914165858238464
author Taylor, Kate J.
Ritz, Adam
author_facet Taylor, Kate J.
Ritz, Adam
contents We analyze the quasinormal mode spectrum for Kerr black holes surrounded by an asymptotically uniform magnetic field, modeled with the Ernst-Wild geometry. A perturbative expansion in both the rotation parameter $a$ and the magnetic field $B$ allows the analysis of perturbations with Kerr-like asymptotics well inside the Melvin radius, and we obtain the spectrum for a variety of scalar quasinormal modes over a range of parameters using the continued fraction method. We then interpolate the low-lying mode spectrum to construct an Ernst-Wild template for the ringdown, and use the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA analysis tool pyRing to assess the impact of the magnetosphere on the extraction of ringdown signatures from several observed binary black hole mergers.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2406_09314
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Ringdown signatures in the Ernst-Wild geometry: modeling Kerr black holes immersed in a magnetic field
Taylor, Kate J.
Ritz, Adam
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We analyze the quasinormal mode spectrum for Kerr black holes surrounded by an asymptotically uniform magnetic field, modeled with the Ernst-Wild geometry. A perturbative expansion in both the rotation parameter $a$ and the magnetic field $B$ allows the analysis of perturbations with Kerr-like asymptotics well inside the Melvin radius, and we obtain the spectrum for a variety of scalar quasinormal modes over a range of parameters using the continued fraction method. We then interpolate the low-lying mode spectrum to construct an Ernst-Wild template for the ringdown, and use the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA analysis tool pyRing to assess the impact of the magnetosphere on the extraction of ringdown signatures from several observed binary black hole mergers.
title Ringdown signatures in the Ernst-Wild geometry: modeling Kerr black holes immersed in a magnetic field
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09314