Quasinormal modes of black holes: From astrophysics to string theory

By R. Konoplya, A. Zhidenko. 2011

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Perturbations of black holes, initially considered in the context of possible observations of astrophysical effects, have been studied for the past ten years in string theory, brane-world models and quantum gravity. Through the famous gauge/gravity duality, proper oscillations of perturbed black holes, called quasinormal modes (QNMs), allow for the description of the hydrodynamic regime in the dual finite temperature field theory at strong coupling, which can be used to predict the behavior of quark-gluon plasmas in the nonperturbative regime. On the other hand, the brane-world scenarios assume the existence of extra dimensions in nature, so that multidimensional black holes can be formed in a laboratory experiment. All this stimulated active research in the field of perturbations of higher-dimensional black holes and branes during recent years. In this review recent achievements on various aspects of black hole perturbations are discussed such as decoupling of variables in the perturbation equations, quasinormal modes (with special emphasis on various numerical and analytical methods of calculations), late-time tails, gravitational stability, AdS/CFT interpretation of quasinormal modes, and holographic superconductors. We also touch on state-of-the-art observational possibilities for detecting quasinormal modes of black holes.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Phenomenological aspects of black holes beyond general relativity (2018, methodology): “The ringdown part of the signal can again be described making used of a linear analysis, in terms of the so-called quasinormal modes [86, 87].”
Overdamped modes in Schwarzschild-de Sitter and a Mathematica package for the numerical computation of quasinormal modes (2017, background): “totically anti-de Sitter black holes. At late times these are again described by quasinormal modes, see [16,17] for an explicit comparison. For two extensive reviews on quasinormal modes, see [7] and [8]. Being so full of information, it would be desirable to be able to compute these for any black h”
Wormholes versus black holes: quasinormal ringing at early and late times (2016, methodology): “Since quasinormal modes and the asymptotical behavior of perturbations do not depend on initial conditions (as confirmed by several numerical simulations), we shall consider the Gaussian wave initial data on v-axes (see [2] for more details).”
Superradiance: Energy Extraction, Black-Hole Bombs and Implications for Astrophysics and Particle Physics (2015, background): “The latter coincide with the BH quasinormal modes (QNMs) [48, 49, 50, 51, 52].”