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Ringdown of GW190521: Hints of multiple quasinormal modes with a precessional interpretation

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GW190521 is a short-duration, low-frequency gravitational-wave signal in the LIGO-Virgo catalogue. The signal is consistent with the ringdown and possibly some of the inspiral-merger of an intermediate-mass binary black-hole coalescence. We find that previous models of the quasinormal mode spectrum in the ringdown of GW190521 give remnant mass and spin estimates which are not fully consistent with those of many inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms. In our own analysis, we find that ringdown models which include both the angular ${l=2}$, ${m=1}$ and ${l=m=2}$ fundamental quasinormal modes are in full agreement with most inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms, and in particular with the numerical relativity surrogate NRSur7dq4. We also find some support for including the ${l=3}$, ${m=2}$ fundamental quasinormal mode in our fits, building on Capano et al.'s findings regarding a higher-frequency subdominant mode. We propose an interpretation of our GW190521 ringdown model that links precession to the excitation of ${l\neq m}$ quasinormal modes, but we do not rule out eccentricity or other interpretations.

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gr-qc 9

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2026 5 2025 4

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Polarization Analysis of Ringdown Signals

gr-qc · 2026-05-14 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Constrained polarization model for Kerr ringdown modes enables inclination inference from two-detector data for non-precessing mergers but introduces biases when applied to precessing systems.

Impact of sky localization uncertainty on ringdown inference

gr-qc · 2026-05-18 · conditional · novelty 5.0

Properly accounting for sky localization uncertainty in ringdown inference widens mode-amplitude posteriors, avoids bias from fixed point estimates, and leaves amplitude ratios robust for Kerr spectroscopy.

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.

The quasinormal modes of the rotating quantum corrected black holes

gr-qc · 2025-10-31 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

The work calculates scalar quasinormal mode spectra for a rotating quantum-corrected black hole and constructs a methodological pipeline to infer the quantum correction parameter from gravitational-wave ringdown data using informative priors.

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