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Trinity of black hole correspondences: Shadows, quasinormal modes, graybody factors, and cautionary remarks

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arxiv 2504.01909 v4 pith:PWEO3ZDH submitted 2025-04-02 gr-qc astro-ph.HEhep-ph

Trinity of black hole correspondences: Shadows, quasinormal modes, graybody factors, and cautionary remarks

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Correspondences between apparently distant concepts are ubiquitous in theoretical physics. In the context of black holes (BHs), quasinormal modes (QNMs) were shown to be linked to both shadows, in the so-called eikonal limit, and graybody factors (GBFs), using the WKB approximation. We test the accuracy of the QNM-GBF correspondence in the context of the Hawking radiation for static and rotating black hole configurations, with particular attention to the superradiant regime. Our analysis reveals the correspondence failure to accurately reproduce the Hawking spectrum due to divergences. Furthermore, we bridge the gap between BH shadows and GBFs by drawing a correspondence between such quantities in the case of generic static and spherically symmetric spacetime configurations. The shadow-GBF correspondence is tested for some case studies, including regular BHs, and its limitations and applicability are discussed. This study opens new perspectives by introducing a new correspondence and remarking on the caution needed when considering these connections.

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