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Quadratic Mode Couplings in Rotating Black Holes and Their Detectability

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Quadratic quasinormal modes encode fundamental properties of black hole spacetimes. They are also one of the key ingredients of nonlinearities of General Relativity in the ringdown stage of binary black hole coalescence. In this work, we classify all possible quadratic coupling channels of quasinormal modes for a generic Kerr black hole, and use a frequency-domain pseudospectral code with hyperboloidal slicing to calculate these couplings. After accounting for all the channels in systems with reflection symmetry, our results become consistent with those extracted from numerical simulations and time-domain fits. This agreement provides a compelling example demonstrating the success of black hole second-order perturbation theory. We also explore potential applications of our calculations in future ringdown data analysis by carrying out a detectability survey for various quadratic modes. We find that a few of them are observationally relevant for third-generation ground-based detectors like Cosmic Explorer, as well as the space-borne detector LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna).

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gr-qc · 2026-05-11 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

A traceful radiation gauge plus two transport equations from the stress-energy tensor enable hierarchical metric reconstruction for generic sources in Petrov type D black hole spacetimes.

Black Hole Ringdown Nonlinearities in the Large-D Limit

gr-qc · 2026-06-22 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

In the large-D limit, analytic third-order nonlinear corrections to quasinormal modes improve ringdown modeling accuracy by several orders of magnitude for head-on black hole collisions.

Ringdown Analysis of GW250114 with Orthonormal Modes

gr-qc · 2026-05-05 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Orthonormal QNM analysis of GW250114 raises the significance of the first overtone of the ℓ=m=2 mode from 82.5% to 99.9% and detects no significant deviation from Kerr predictions.

Prompt Response from Plunging Sources in Schwarzschild Spacetime

gr-qc · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

The prompt response is ~1.2 times stronger than quasinormal mode excitation during inspiral and enables 99% accurate reconstruction of the full inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform when combined with other components.

Green function of the P\"{o}schl-Teller potential

gr-qc · 2025-10-20 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Exact time-domain Green function computed for the Pöschl-Teller approximation to black-hole perturbation potentials, revealing additional early-time exponentially growing modes and a light-cone plus historical waveform decomposition.

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