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Role of black hole quasinormal mode overtones for ringdown analysis
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Role of black hole quasinormal mode overtones for ringdown analysis
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Extracting quasinormal modes from compact binary mergers to perform black hole spectroscopy is one of the fundamental pillars in current and future strong-gravity tests. Among the most remarkable findings of recent works is that including a large number of overtones not only reduces the mismatch of the fitted ringdown but also allows one to extract black hole parameters from a ringdown analysis that goes well within the nonlinear merger part. At the same time, it is well understood that several details of the ringdown analysis have important consequences for the question of whether overtones are present or not, and subsequently, to what extent one can claim to perform black hole spectroscopy. To clarify and tackle some aspects of overtone fitting, we revisit the clearer problem of wave propagation in the scalar Regge-Wheeler and P\"oschl-Teller potentials. This setup, which is to some extent qualitatively very similar to the nonlinear merger-ringdown regime, indicates that using even an approximate model for the overtones yields an improved extraction of the black hole mass at early ringdown times. We find that the relevant parameter is the number of included modes rather than using the correct model for the overtones themselves. These results show that some standard tests for verifying the physical contribution of an overtone to a waveform can be misleading, and that even in the linear case it can be difficult to distinguish the presence of an excited mode from the fitting of non-QNM effects.
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