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Greybody Factors Imprinted on Black Hole Ringdowns: an alternative to superposed quasi-normal modes

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arxiv 2309.05725 v2 pith:5H73L43V submitted 2023-09-11 gr-qc hep-th

Greybody Factors Imprinted on Black Hole Ringdowns: an alternative to superposed quasi-normal modes

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It is shown that the spectral amplitude of gravitational-wave (GW) ringdown of a Kerr black hole sourced by an extreme mass ratio merger can be modeled by the $\textit{greybody factor}$, which quantifies the scattering nature of the black hole geometry. The estimation of the mass and spin of the remnant is demonstrated by fitting the greybody factor to GW data without using black hole quasi-normal modes. We propose that the ringdown modeling with the greybody factor may strengthen the test of gravity as one can avoid the possible overfitting issue and the start time problem in the ringdown modeling with superposed quasi-normal modes.

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